Re: location for pg_default tablespace

From: AI Rumman <rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: location for pg_default tablespace
Date: 2010-01-12 05:40:07
Message-ID: 2a7905441001112140w36a2a888v220ad4bb65a84daf@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks.
But actually I want to know that why the value in spclocation is null is
pg_tablespace for pg_default.
Moreover, $PGDATA/pg_tblspc has no file.
Could you please tell me why?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> AI Rumman wrote:
>
>> I am new at Postgresql. Previously I used to work with Oracle.
>> I am surprised to see that the location for pg_default tablespace in my
>> database for a Postgresql cluster is null.
>> Could anyone please tell me what is the location of default tablespace in
>> postgresql and how could I find it?
>>
>
> Its the $PGDATA directory. The location of this varies widely by operating
> system and postgres distribution. For instance, the postgres supplied with
> fedora and redhat linuxes tend to put this in /var/lib/pgsql/data ... If
> you build postgres from source on a unix-like system, using full defaults,
> its probably /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
>
>

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