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<H2><A NAME="sect0" HREF="#toc0">NAME </A></H2>
initlocation - create a new Postgres storage area
<H2><A NAME="sect1" HREF="#toc1">SYNOPSIS </A></H2>
<B>initlocation</B>
<I>directory</I> <P>
<B>initlocation</B> <I>$environment_variable</I> <P>
<H2><A NAME="sect2" HREF="#toc2">DESCRIPTION </A></H2>
<I>initlocation</I>
creates a new Postgres database storage area. A storage area contains distinct
Postgres databases, with each database in a separate directory and managed
by a single postmaster. <P>
Creating a database storage area consists of creating
the directories in which the database data will live. There are 2 types
of arguments for <I>initlocation</I>. First, you can specify an explicit absolute
path to the top directory of the storage area. Second, you can specify
an environment variable (e.g. $PGDATA2). This environment variable should
be known to the backend for later use in <I>create database</I>. In either case
Postgres will add /base/ to the specified path to create the storage area.
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<H2><A NAME="sect3" HREF="#toc3">SEE ALSO </A></H2>
<A HREF="create_database.l.html">create_database(l)</A>
, <A HREF="initdb.1.html">initdb(1)</A>
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