Question

I am trying to create a PG db in a specified location. According to the docs here, I must use the LOCATION flag. However, when I run CREATE DATABASE (from the pgsql CLI), I get the following warning:

WARNING:  LOCATION is not supported anymore
HINT:  Consider using tablespaces instead.

However, the PG documentation on TABLESPACES does not show how it can be used to create a database in a specific directory. What is the required syntax to do this?

Answer 1

You would need to do this in 2 steps:

1. Create Tablespace examples for which you can see in the link
2. Create Database

When you create tablespace you set it’s location and then you can create multiple databases in the same tablespace if you choose to.