Re: [DOCS] PGDATA confusion

2013-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Thom Brown writes: > I've found another unfortunate inconsistency. > PGDATA is not necessarily the same location in these 2 commands: > pg_ctl start -D DATADIR > pg_ctl stop -D DATADIR > The first one requires that the postgresql.conf file be located in the > specified directory. The second on

Re: [DOCS] PGDATA confusion

2013-04-14 Thread Thom Brown
On 16 August 2012 08:30, Thom Brown wrote: > On 16 August 2012 04:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:32:13PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> Thom Brown wrote: >>> > > So if one set PGDATA to somewhere which had no database files at all, >>> > > but just postgresql.conf, it cou