Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:58:04PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> > I'm trying to fix up initlocation to accept an environment variable as
> > an input parameter (in addition to the absolute path name it already
> > accepts).
>
> And how shall it dsitinguish between a path and a variable?
>
> > I'd like to be able to say:
> >
> > setenv PGDATA2 /home/postgres/data
> > initlocation PGDATA2
>
> But this could mean the path PGDATA2 too, couldn't it?
initlocation $PGDATA2
?