Hi,
The Postgresql configuration files can be kept elsewhere than the data
directory, as is described in the section about "File Locations."
(18.2 of as of 8.4)[1]
The documentation here basically mentions two ways of doing this.
First you can start Postgresql with the -D option to pg_ctl point
Ludo Smissaert writes:
> Both methods works fine on server startup, but the first method gives
> problems when stopping the server with pg_ctl.
Yeah, pg_ctl is far too stupid to cope with such things --- it expects
that PGDATA points at the data directory. Short of teaching it to parse
the confi
Tom Lane wrote:
Ludo Smissaert writes:
Both methods works fine on server startup, but the first method gives
problems when stopping the server with pg_ctl.
Yeah, pg_ctl is far too stupid to cope with such things --- it expects
that PGDATA points at the data directory. Short of teaching it to
