Hi Tom,
An excellent suggestion and I've just done it.
Many thanks.
Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Mon 8/13/2007 4:21 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postmaster.pid file
"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> writes:
> As I typed:
> ~/bin/pg_ctl -D ~/bin reload
> I thought I had typed:
> ~/bin/pg_ctl -D ~/data reload
I recommend setting up PGDATA as an environment variable, so you never
have to type it at all ...
regards, tom lane