Re: pg_ctl cannot find postgresql.conf

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 2:29 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, Дмитрий Карасёв <karasev(dot)dmitrii94(at)mail(dot)ru>
> wrote:
>
>> pg_ctl (PostgreSQL) 14.4
>> PGDATA=/mnt/disk/base/postgresql/14/main
>> ERROR:
>> pg_ctl start
>> ожидание запуска сервера....postgres не может открыть файл конфигурации
>> сервера "/mnt/disk/base/postgresql/14/main/postgresql.conf": No such file
>> or directory
>> but postgresql.conf located in /etc/postgresql/14/main/postgresql.conf
>>
>>
>
> This isn’t a bug. Use the command line options or environment variables
> to tell pg_ctl where to find the configuration file in the non-default
> location.
>
> Maybe you are working on a Debian environment, in that case you should be
using 'pg_ctlcluster' as a 'pg_ctl' replacement:

https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql#pg_ctl_replacement

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha