Re: Moved database question

From: brian <brian(at)zijn-digital(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Moved database question
Date: 2008-08-05 18:59:02
Message-ID: 4898A2F6.1090608@zijn-digital.com
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Bayless Kirtley wrote:
> I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after
> a pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on
> the new location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump.
>
>
> My problem now is that I have to supply the full pathnames to start
> or stop the server. Otherwise it still wants to access the old
> location which no longer exists. What am I missing to make the new
> (and only existing) location be the Postgres default?
>

You didn't tell us what platform you're using. What does your startup
script have for PGDATA?

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