Re: Change Hard Disc Drive

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Yan Cheng Cheok <yccheok(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Change Hard Disc Drive
Date: 2010-01-13 05:31:26
Message-ID: 937d27e11001122131x3da02a05i57051f4a28617266@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Craig Ringer
<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> Unfortunately, it doesn't. This means you need to alter the Windows service
> directly. What you need to do is stop the PostgreSQL service, then move your
> data directory (by default in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\version\data where
> "version" is 8.4, 8.3, etc) to the new location, and finally modify the
> command line used by the service so Pg knows where to find its data
> directory.

Or... create a new tablespace on the larger drive using pgAdmin, and
then move large tables/indexes across by right-clicking them and
selecting Properties, and then choosing the new tablespace.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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