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Chapter 20. Moving the pnfs Data from GDBM to PostgreSQL

Vladimir Podstavkov

Mathias de Riese

From version 1.6.6 of dCache the distribution contains a version of the pnfs server which uses a PostgreSQL database to store the namespace information instead of gdbm database files. The following guide will aid in updating to this server and converting the data from the gdbm files to the PostgreSQL database.