Re: More than one installation on the same machine

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jay R <jaysjaded(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More than one installation on the same machine
Date: 2003-07-26 14:00:14
Message-ID: 9198.1059228014@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jay R <jaysjaded(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I've installed 7.3 in its own directory, using the
> default configuration parameters, and I gather from
> the 7.3 documentation that I need to start it up on a
> different port and provide a different socket to point
> DBI::Pg at. (7.2 has port 5432 and a socket in /tmp)
> But I couldn't figure out quite how to do it, based
> on the documentation.

Use "-D dir" or set $PGDATA to point initdb at a nonstandard data
directory. Then start the new postmaster with the same switch or
environment, plus a "-p port" switch (or instead of -p, set the port
number in postgresql.conf).

Client-side code will also need to be pointed at that port. If you were
using libpq-derived code you could handle this transparently by setting
$PGPORT in the client ennvironment, but I forget whether that works for
DBI::Pg.

regards, tom lane

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