Re: how to restart on OS X

From: Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Victor Sp=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=ng Arthursson <victor(at)tosti(dot)dk>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how to restart on OS X
Date: 2003-12-05 10:19:40
Message-ID: BBF60C3C.29B76%awitney@sghms.ac.uk
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You need to specify where the installations data directory is

sudo /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /path/to/data reload

For example, on my machine:

sudo -u pgsql /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data reload

Although you may have to do this as the postgres/pgsql user rather than root
(not sure about this part though)

> Have an installation which comes from Marks site entropy.cz.
>
> But I can't restart the server.
>
> Error message:
>
> [indigo:~] victor% sudo /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl reload
> pg_ctl: no database directory or environment variable $PGDATA is
> specified
> Try 'pg_ctl --help' for more information.
> [indigo:~] victor%
>
> Please help! ;)
>
> Sincerely
>
> Victor
>
>
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