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PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
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PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

by Simon Riggs, GIANNI CIOLLI, Hannu Krosing, Gabriele Bartolini
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Locating the database server files

Database server files are initially stored in a location referred to as the data directory. Additional data files may also be stored in tablespaces, if any exist.

In this recipe, you will learn how to find the location of these directories on a given database server.

Getting ready

You'll need to get an operating system access to the database system, which is what we call the platform on which the database runs.

How to do it…

On Debian or Ubuntu systems, the default data directory location is /var/lib/postgresql/R.r/main.

Here, R.r represents the major and minor release numbers of the database server software respectively, for example, 9.4. The configuration files are located at /etc/postgresql/R.r/main/.

In both cases, ...

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