Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C8A633CBF for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:10:25 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93212-01 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:10:24 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A6A6336D2 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:10:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n26GAKJk029064; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:10:20 -0500 (EST) To: Carol Walter cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Default text_serach_config In-reply-to: <809A06CB-0FE8-40AE-85A1-6BAB4F11F37E@indiana.edu> References: <2C17735B-7FC2-4571-9AB8-C97711BD7D79@indiana.edu> <28589.1236353876@sss.pgh.pa.us> <809A06CB-0FE8-40AE-85A1-6BAB4F11F37E@indiana.edu> Comments: In-reply-to Carol Walter message dated "Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:06:55 -0500" Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:10:20 -0500 Message-ID: <29063.1236355820@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/92 X-Sequence-Number: 31592 Carol Walter 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