Re: [SQL] Alternate Database Locations

[indraneel]

Is that a small d or a capital D? try this:
postmaster -D $PGDATA2 -i -p 5431 &

\Indraneel

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brian C. Doyle wrote:

> Okay I am still doing something wrong here
> 
> I set PGDATA2=/home/user1/database
> export PGDATA2
> 
> then I start postmaster
> postmaster -d PGDATA2 -i -p  5431 &
> and i get
> 
> Can't create pid file: /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
> Is another postmaster (pid: 10686) running?
> 
> What am I missing... I know it must be simple!!!
> 
> Thanks for all of your help!