Bruce Momjian wrote: > I just set PGDATA in my login and I don't have to deal with it > again.
Duh....I just realized a reason you guys might care about this so much. It's because you want to be able to start the postmaster from within a debugger (or profiler, or whatever), and you don't want to have to mess with command line options from there, right? Sounds like fixing pg_ctl to use -D explicitly when invoking the postmaster is the right change to make here, since that's probably how the majority of the production shops are going to be starting the database anyway. Takes care of the majority of the "visibility" problem and leaves PGDATA intact. Thoughts? -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])