Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/22/2010 09:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I begin to wonder if the subdirectory $PGDATA/base/26468499 is there at
>> all?
> Alright I am going to show my ignorance here, but why would it not be?
> $PGDATA/base/1663/26468499
1663 is the pg_default tablespace, which refers to $PGDATA/base
(hardwired knowledge in the file-path-construction code). See
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/storage-file-layout.html
regards, tom lane