Re: pg_ctl bug or feature?

I just tried the same setup as yours, and it worked fine, i was able
to start and stop the instance.

could it be that the process didn't start at all when you started it?

regards,

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Jonel Rienton
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Software Developer, *nix Advocate

On May 6, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Jonel Rienton wrote:
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>> your data directory points to /usr/local/pgsql/data2 and you've
>> started it with -D /usr/local/pgsql/etc
>> might be something to look at
>>
>
> In version 8 you can specify the location of the data_directory
> with the data_directory option in the postgresql.conf file. The
> postgresql.conf is located in /usr/local/pgsql/etc.
>
> Sincerely,
>
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