[ADMIN] Quickie about Database locations

Title: Gareth Stationery

Hey all!

I'm muddled up about something.

I'm creating a new database, and absolute paths are disallowed.

Therefore I su to postgres ( the owner of the service ) and run the following:

export PGDATA2=/bla/bla/bla

initlocation PGDATA2

initlocation returns fine - telling me to create the database as per usual.

I therefore do:

createdb v2 -D 'PGDATA2'

But I get:

ERROR: Postmaster environment variable 'PGDATA2' not set
createdb: database creation failed

I echo it - to test it - it works.

I put it in the bash_profile of the user, restart postgres... nothing...

Any ideas?

Thanks everyone

Gareth Kirwan
Programming & Development,
Thermeon Europe Ltd,
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