Re: Moving the data directory

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy
<kmsram420(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I get this error.
>
> server starting
> krishnam(at)nipa-umh:/media/extension/var/lib$ postgres: invalid argument:
> "config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf"
>
> tried with both -o and -c arguments.
>

My mistake, I screwed up!

/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D
/media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -o "-c
config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf"

(-c inside the quotes)

--Scott

Thanks,
> Sairam Krishnamurthy
> +1 612 859 8161
>
>
> On 02/15/2011 04:27 PM, Scott Mead wrote:
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D
> /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -o
> config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf
>
>