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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

You're reading from  PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identifying a PostgreSQL data directory and its contents

In the previous recipes, we discussed how a data directory can be initialized using initdb and how a PostgreSQL cluster can be started using pg_ctl. A data directory in PostgreSQL is a directory that contains several directories and sub-directories for storing data. It contains several configuration files and sub-directories that play a crucial role in running a Postgres database. The location of the data directory and some of its configuration files may change, depending on the OS distribution. For example, on Ubuntu or Debian, the configuration files are visible in a different location under /etc.

In this recipe, we are going to talk about the data directory and its contents in detail.

Getting ready

The following recipe involves running some Linux-level commands to identify the data directory. We require access to the OS to run these commands. As long as we can ssh to the database server as root or the Postgres user, we should...

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