Re: Moving database cluster

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:21:14PM -0300, Fernando Hevia wrote:
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- > -----Mensaje original-----
- > De: Guillaume Lelarge [mailto:guillaume@lelarge.info]
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- > Le 14/01/2010 21:40, Fernando Hevia a écrit :
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- > > An Ubuntu install creates a postgres cluster automatically on
- > > /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main Whats the best procedure for
- > moving this
- > > cluster to an other location?
- > > Should I just rerun initdb? What happens then with the
- > default cluster
- > > or how could I delete it?
- > >
- >
- > If you don't have any data on it, the best way is to drop it
- > with pg_dropcluster, and create a new one with pg_createcluster.
- >
- >
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- Sound advice. Thanks!!

in SLES, assuming you have no data in the DB, I'd go to /etc/sysconfig/postgresql
modify POSTGRES_DATADIR="/my/new/path"

and then (logout/log back in to get your PGDATA set correctly and )
initdb

No need to mess with symlinks.

I'm sure ubuntu has something similar to sysconfig

Dave