Re: Quickie about Database locations

Gareth StationeryQuick response too:

Shortly after sending the email I tried exactly what I said, with the
following alteration:
I put the lines in the .bash_profile first, then initlocation'd then I
exited and restarted postgres,
then I su'd back in - and tried the create - and bingo - it worked.

Sorry if I wasted anyone's time :-)

Regards

Gareth Kirwan

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Gareth Kirwan
Sent: 22 October 2002 16:14
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] Quickie about Database locations

Hey all!

I'm muddled up about something.
I'm creating a new database, and absolute paths are disallowed.
Therefore I su to postgres ( the owner of the service ) and run the
following:

export PGDATA2=/bla/bla/bla
initlocation PGDATA2

initlocation returns fine - telling me to create the database as per
usual.
I therefore do:

createdb v2 -D 'PGDATA2'

But I get:

ERROR: Postmaster environment variable 'PGDATA2' not set
createdb: database creation failed

I echo it - to test it - it works.
I put it in the bash_profile of the user, restart postgres... nothing...

Any ideas?

Thanks everyone

Gareth Kirwan
Programming & Development,
Thermeon Europe Ltd,
gbjk(at)thermeoneurope(dot)com
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