Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-09 Thread chen jia
Hi Sam, Thanks for your help. Your solution seems to work. I may let you know if I run into problems. Thanks again. Best, Jia On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Sam Mason wrote: >  [ please CC the mailing list and not the list owner, they answer >   mailing list questions not PG questions ] > > On

Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-08 Thread Sam Mason
[ please CC the mailing list and not the list owner, they answer mailing list questions not PG questions ] On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:31:50AM -0400, Jia Chen wrote: > Sam Mason wrote: > >I don't think you need to go that far. I'd just do an "initdb" > >somewhere on the removable disk and then

Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-08 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 08:52:23AM +, Jasen Betts wrote: > On 2009-09-08, Jia Chen wrote: > > Now, I want to store PostgreSQL data on an external drive because I work > > both on my office machine and on my home machine a lot. This way, I can > > always bring my external drive to either loc

Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-08 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-09-08, Jia Chen wrote: > Hi there, > > As a beginner of PostgreSQL, I installed PostgreSQL 8.3.7 on Ubuntu 9.04 > by using sudo apt-get install. > > Now, I want to store PostgreSQL data on an external drive because I work > both on my office machine and on my home machine a lot. This w

Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-07 Thread Jia Chen
ns accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:20:52 -0400 > From: chen.1...@gmail.com > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive > > Hi there, > > As a beginner of PostgreSQL, I

Re: [GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-07 Thread Martin Gainty
nt donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:20:52 -0400 > From: chen.1...@gmail.com > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] How to sto

[GENERAL] How to store data on an external drive

2009-09-07 Thread Jia Chen
Hi there, As a beginner of PostgreSQL, I installed PostgreSQL 8.3.7 on Ubuntu 9.04 by using sudo apt-get install. Now, I want to store PostgreSQL data on an external drive because I work both on my office machine and on my home machine a lot. This way, I can always bring my external drive t