Re: unbale to use pg_ctl in Windows Cmd.

You've got to do it because Postgresql requires you to.

Or you could set PGDATA=|C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\13\data'|and run
|pg_ctl status|, just like the error message aid.

On 12/6/20 2:02 AM, mark armon wrote:
>
> Problem resolved. But I just don’t know why.
> So I need to add the data directory. like |pg_ctl status -D 'C:\Program
> Files\PostgreSQL\13\data'|
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:54 PM Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com
> <mailto:scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 5, 2020, at 10:02 AM, mark armon <1994hejian(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:1994hejian(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know where the pg_data directory.
>
> You will have to find it to use pg_ctl
>
> > So I set the C:\Users\Think\Desktop\postgres\data as user variable
> and system variable In windows setting.
>
> Doesn't do any good if that's not where the data directory is.
>

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