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fix: rephrase the Postgres PGDATA documentation and add a warning
The content of this PR should be self-explaining. Signed-off-by: Matthias Riegler <matthias.riegler@ankorstore.com>
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### `PGDATA`
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This optional variable can be used to define another location - like a subdirectory - for the database files. The default is `/var/lib/postgresql/data`. If the data volume you're using is a filesystem mountpoint (like with GCE persistent disks) or remote folder that cannot be chowned to the `postgres` user (like some NFS mounts), Postgres `initdb` recommends a subdirectory be created to contain the data.
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> :warning: when mounting a volume to `/var/lib/posgresql`, the `/var/lib/postgresql/data` path is a local volume from the container runtime, thus data is not persistet on the mounted volume.
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This optional variable can be used to define another location - like a subdirectory - for the database files. The default is `/var/lib/postgresql/data`. If the data volume you're using is a filesystem mountpoint (like with GCE persistent disks), or remote folder that cannot be chowned to the `postgres` user (like some NFS mounts), or contains folders/files (e.g. `lost+found`), Postgres `initdb` requires a subdirectory to be created within the mountpoint to contain the data.
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For example:
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