Re: postmaster.pid file

Hi Tom,

An excellent suggestion and I've just done it.
Many thanks.

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Mon 8/13/2007 4:21 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postmaster.pid file

"Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> writes:
> As I typed:
> ~/bin/pg_ctl -D ~/bin reload
> I thought I had typed:
> ~/bin/pg_ctl -D ~/data reload

I recommend setting up PGDATA as an environment variable, so you never
have to type it at all ...

regards, tom lane