Re: Creating a new database on a different file system

Hi Ian,

Tablespaces would work... take a look:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-tablespaces.html

Best,
Tim

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM Ian Dauncey <Ian(dot)Dauncey(at)bankzero(dot)co(dot)za>
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> Hi All
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> We are running an old version of PostgreSQL on a Linux Server.
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> 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.
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> Is this possible and if so, how do we go about it.
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> In a nutshell:
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> I have the following statement defined in the postgresql.conf file -
> data_directory = '/opt/pgdata_postgres'
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> I have created the following database datadb1, datadb2 (plus all default
> databases)
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> Now I want to create a third database datadb3, but it needs to be created
> on file system “/opt/pgdata1_postgres” and not on ‘/opt/pgdata_postgres'
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> Is this possible
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> Regards
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> Ian
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