Re: Silent installation and port configuration with initdb=0

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Ralf Butler <ralf(dot)butler(at)web(dot)de> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I conduct a silent installation of PostgreSQL in windows. I would like
> to specify a different port during installation. There is the argument
> LISTENPORT which I could use. But the problem is that I set INITDB=0
> during the silent installation and I read that LISTENPORT can be set
> only when INITDB is 1.
>
> The question is now how to specify the port during installation. Or is
> there another way to do it via the commandline after installation?
>

On a tangent, is there a way to specify a GUC variable's initial value when
running initdb?

For eg., for setting port number at initdb, wouldn't it be helpful to say:

initdb -o "port=1521" -D /mydatadir

Just checked, PGPORT is (understandably) not honored by initdb.

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