| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ian Dauncey <Ian(dot)Dauncey(at)bankzero(dot)co(dot)za> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Creating a new database on a different file system |
| Date: | 2025-03-17 15:18:13 |
| Message-ID: | 7002449259b582723ed7e041a7f0de116b48ad4d.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 15:51 +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Ian Dauncey <Ian(dot)Dauncey(at)bankzero(dot)co(dot)za> wrote:
> > We have created a few databases on the file system defined in the postgresql.conf,
> > but now I would like to create another database within the same cluster but on a
> > different file system.
> >
> > Is this possible and if so, how do we go about it.
>
> create a tablespace on the filesystem you want to use, and then create
> the database adding the `WITH TABLESPACE` clause.
> See <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-createtablespace.html>
That is an option, but I would recommend to create a new database cluster
on the new file system rather than creating a tablespace.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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