On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Michael Grimm <trashcan(at)ellael(dot)org> writes:
> > Question:
> > Is there a way to tell PostgreSQL to look for config files in e.g.
> /usr/local/etc/postgres, where normally all config files reside in FreeBSD?
> [2]
>
> Typically you would say "pg_ctl -D /usr/local/etc/postgres" to point
> it at the config file. Then you would need the config file to include
> data_directory and perhaps other settings pointing to wherever the
> actual data files are.
>
Is it standard to point PGDATA to an etc directory instead of to the "data"
directory?
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