I thought I understood how specifying a config file path for the server works, but that's apparently not the case. The cluster data is at */storage/postgresql/9.4/data*. The config files are at */etc/postgresql/9.4/main* (this is the default location on Ubuntu). This is how the beginning of */etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf* looks like: data_directory = '/storage/postgresql/9.4/data' hba_file = '/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_hba.conf' ident_file = '/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_ident.conf' So I wrote a few scripts to make my life easier, e.g. *pg94start.sh*: su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /storage/postgresql/9.4/data -o '-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf'" But running this script did not work, the server would not start. So I checked the log file and there was: *FATAL: could not open file "/storage/postgresql/9.4/data/postgresql.conf": Permission denied* After fixing the ownership of this file, it worked. What's the reason the server was trying to access that file? Why does not the override given by the *config_file* parameter work? Thank you.
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