Kevin Brown wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > If you want ps to display the data dir, you should use -D. Remember, it > > is mostly important for multiple postmaster, so if you are doing that, > > just use -D, but don't prevent single-postmaster folks from using > > PGDATA. > > Perhaps the best compromise would be to change pg_ctl so that it uses > -D explicitly when invoking postmaster. That's an easy change. > > Could you describe how you and other developers use PGDATA? I'm quite > interested in knowing why there seems to be so much resistance to > removing the "potential_DataDir = getenv("PGDATA");" line from > postmaster.c.
I just set PGDATA in my login and I don't have to deal with it again. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org