Re: Creating a new database on a different file system

On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 15:51 +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Ian Dauncey <Ian.Dauncey@bankzero.co.za> wrote:
> > We have created a few databases on the file system defined in the postgresql.conf,
> > but now I would like to create another database within the same cluster but on a
> > different file system.
> >
> > Is this possible and if so, how do we go about it.
>
> create a tablespace on the filesystem you want to use, and then create
> the database adding the `WITH TABLESPACE` clause.
> See <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-createtablespace.html>

That is an option, but I would recommend to create a new database cluster
on the new file system rather than creating a tablespace.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe