RE: Issue: Creating Symlink for data directory of postgresql in CentOS7

From: "Chatterjee, Shibayan" <shibayan(dot)chatterjee(at)centurylink(dot)com>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: Issue: Creating Symlink for data directory of postgresql in CentOS7
Date: 2019-07-12 17:11:49
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Luca,
Here's what I modified the $PGDATA to:

>>> Environment=PGDATA=/data/postgresql/data

-Shibayan

-----Original Message-----
From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 11:03 AM
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Chatterjee, Shibayan <shibayan(dot)chatterjee(at)level3(dot)com>; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issue: Creating Symlink for data directory of postgresql in CentOS7

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:47 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> So there is some "postgresql-check-db-dir" (not part of PostgreSQL)
> that complains that there is nothing in /data/postgresql/data. Is that accurate?
>

According to this
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/34217/postgresql-check-db-dir>
the script should check PGDATA does exist and contain the PG_VERSION file or complains as shown in the logs.

> It looks like you succeeded in getting the startup process to look for
> the PostgreSQL data directory in the new location, but - alas - there
> is no data directory there yet.What's the content of

What's the content of $PGDATA?

Luca

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