Re: moving postgresql.conf: pg_ctl can't find postmaster.pid anymore

Ludo Smissaert <ludo@ludikidee.com> writes:
> Both methods works fine on server startup, but the first method gives
> problems when stopping the server with pg_ctl.

Yeah, pg_ctl is far too stupid to cope with such things --- it expects
that PGDATA points at the data directory.  Short of teaching it to parse
the config file it's not clear what we could do about that.

            regards, tom lane