Re: Identifying index files

David Rickard wrote:
> We're building a PostGreSQL 7.3.4 system; we want to place database index
> files on an external drive (for security and backup robustness); we have
> seen in the documentation that is is possible to move the index files to a
> new directory (after they are created) and making symbolic links to their
> new location.  Our problem is distinguishing the index files from data
> files;  does PostGreSQL have a naming convention for the index files?  Or
> is there any particular content we could grep for to identify these files?

See the manual section on "Managing Disk Space".

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