Re: Install question

"Mickey" <mickey@mcnjeni.com> writes:
> I was instructed to add this:
> POSTGRESHOME=/usr/local/pgsql
> MANPATH=$POSTGRESHOME/man:$MANPATH
> PATH=$POSTGRESHOME/bin:$PATH
> PGDATA=$POSTGRESHOME/data
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$POSTGRESHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH PATH PGDATA

> To this file:
>  /etc/profile

> Which I have done, and it has been saved ;)

/etc/profile won't affect anything until you log in again.  Maybe not
then, depending on what shell you use, but try re-logging-in and then
look at the output of "env" to see if PGDATA has been set.

            regards, tom lane