PFA Naming guidelines

As PFA should be a "flexible" architecture we provide only guidelines and best practices concerning the naming convention of the several database components.

PGOME directories

Directory
Purpose

/u01/app/postgres/product/94/

PostgreSQL software sub tree for release 9.4 products

Mount points

It is important to consider that each mount point represents a separate filesystem. In some cases, it should even be a filesystem stored of different disks (i.e filesystems for different redo log members). Below a list of components which should be separated over different physical disks:

Strongly advised:

  • PostgreSQL software / PostgreSQL databases

  • PostgreSQL admin files / PostgreSQL databases

  • WAL files

  • PostgreSQL database backup files

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