Re: Configuring phpPgAdmin and pg_ctl reload

Try

pg_ctl -D /path to pg data home

e.g.

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

Hope this will help

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Meyer" <john(dot)l(dot)meyer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "postgresql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:31 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Configuring phpPgAdmin and pg_ctl reload

> I'm setting up phpPgAdmin and I finally get to the point where you
> reconfigure pg_hba.conf One of the lines says to reload the values,
> type the command pg_ctl reload. I try it as super user, no go, I su
> into postgres, it complains:
>
> pg_ctl reload
> pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA
> unset
> Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
>
>
> Keeping in mind that I typed just what pga_hba.conf said, was there a
> step I was missing (I ended up restarting the server and that worked).
>
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