On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bob Pawley <rjpaw...@shaw.ca> wrote: > I am attempting to load postmaster. > > pg_ctl reload > > I don't understand what is needed for [-D DATADIR]. I have tried the path to > Postgresql with no luck. > > I've also leftoff [-s] since it doesn't appear to be needed.
-D points to the data directory, which looks like this: base pg_clog pg_subtrans pg_twophase pg_xlog postmaster.pid server.crt global pg_multixact pg_tblspc PG_VERSION postmaster.opts root.crt server.key Is your db normally started from a startup script (like on ubuntu or redhat)? if so, then call it with the reload command. On ubuntu it looks like this: sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 reload And that will handle the whole -D thing for you. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
