Re: Control File

""Bruno Almeida do Lago"" <teolupus@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> Today I was playing with our test environment and noticed that if I delete 
> a
> PostgreSQL datafile (with cluster down) and bring up the database, It will
> simple... come up???? :-/
>
> I wonder if it shouldn't complain about the missing datafile before 
> opening
> the cluster... I don't know... Maybe something like the oracle control 
> file
> which stores information about the files needed to start the database.
>
> It seems pretty easy to do it (I may be wrong...).
>

What if after you check done, I remove the data file ?

Regards,
Qingqing