Re: A change in the Debian install

rob stone wrote:

> You create a new cluster by running initdb:-
>
> initdb -D /path/to/my/new/cluster

No, if you want to use the infrastructure brought by the
debian packages for your cluster, it should be created with:
pg_createcluster 9.5 nameofcluster

See https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql
or the manpages of pg_createcluster and pg_wrapper.

> So, if you want to have multiple clusters with each one using its own
> postgresql.conf, then you have to eliminate those files from the /etc
> path, or alter your start-up scripts to use the config_file parameter.
> Note that this also applies to the other two conf files.

When using the abovementioned commands you don't need or want
to do that, because /etc/postgresql/<version>/<cluster> is the
only place they're going to be in.

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