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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Default text_serach_config
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:10:20 -0500
Message-ID: <29063.1236355820@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> writes:
> Well, it seems like that could happen.  This is a machine that has a  
> instance of 8.2 running on it.  My bash history says that the command  
> that I ran to start the 8.3.6 instance is
> pg_ctl start -D /db02/postgres/data8.3.6/data -l data836.log.  /db02/ 
> postgres/data8.3.6/data is where the data is.  Does pg_ctl need of  
> full path, because this command probably ran the 8.2 version of that.

I think pg_ctl tries to execute the postgres that's in the same
directory it is.  So if your PATH leads to the 8.2 copy of pg_ctl,
the wrong thing will happen.  You could fix your PATH, or explicitly
write out the path to the 8.3 copy.

			regards, tom lane



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