On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:58:04PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> I'm trying to fix up initlocation to accept an environment variable as
> an input parameter (in addition to the absolute path name it already
> accepts). 

And how shall it dsitinguish between a path and a variable?

> I'd like to be able to say:
> 
>   setenv PGDATA2 /home/postgres/data
>   initlocation PGDATA2

But this could mean the path PGDATA2 too, couldn't it?

> Anyone know how to do this? Please??

I don't even know if it's at all possible.

Michael
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