From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: unbale to use pg_ctl in Windows Cmd.
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 16:24:41 -0600
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On 12/5/20 3:40 PM, Paul Förster wrote:
> Hi Mark, hi Ron,
>
>> On 05. Dec, 2020, at 22:22, Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/5/20 11:02 AM, mark armon wrote:
>>> pg_ctl status
>>> pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA unset
>>> Try "pg_ctl
>>> --help" for more information.
>>>
>>>
>>> C:\Users\Think>pg_ctl
>>> --help
>>>
>>> pg_ctl is a utility to initialize,
>>> start, stop, or control a PostgreSQL server.
>>>
>>> I don't know where the pg_data directory. So I set the C:\Users\Think\Desktop\postgres\data as user variable and system variable In windows setting. But still not working. In the bin directory, there is pg_ctl.exe file.
>> Randomly deciding on a directory because you don't know where the data actually is doesn't work. You need to know where the data is.
> maybe this helps with locating PGDATA. If you can connect you can ask the database where PGDATA is:
>
> postgres=# show data_directory;
> data_directory
> ---------------------
> /data/pg01/sdb01/db
> (1 row)
Using Cortana (or good old "DIR/S") to find PG_VERSION should work. I'd be
shocked if it didn't...
--
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