On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> writes:
>> I notice that PostgreSQL (both 9.5.4 and 9.6) create a 'data2' directory
>> as a peer to the 'data' directory I specified at database initialization.
>> What is this directory for and what parameter determines its location?
> Postgres itself certainly does no such thing. Maybe it's being done in
> some wrapper script you're using?
<sigh..> My boneheadedness is responsible for 'data2'. I had forgotten
that I created a new tablespace there in anticipation of putting a
particularly large database on its own mount point.
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