From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Rob Jaeger <yogirob(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Finding the bin path |
Date: | 2009-12-28 00:25:54 |
Message-ID: | 4B37FB12.4050507@postnewspapers.com.au |
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On 27/12/2009 2:12 PM, Rob Jaeger wrote:
> I don't quite follow Greg Smith's reply of 'try guess based on "which
> postmaster"' (can you clarify?)
He's talking about UNIX systems. This will not help you.
> But - I think I have found what I need! I can do a "SHOW
> data_directory;" and then from there I can snoop inside the
> postmaster.opts file to get the bin path. The question I have now is -
> is this method safe? Is this file present in all platform data
> directories. (I'm using Win7)
It looks like it's present on all platforms. There are the contents for
my Debian (Linux) system:
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/postgres "-D" "/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main"
"-c" "config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf"
The release notes say that postmaster.opts was added in 7.0, so it'll be
present for any version remotely new enough to still be in reasonable use.
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Craig Ringer
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