From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: unbale to use pg_ctl in Windows Cmd.
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:22:53 -0600
Message-ID: <59f55b22-0355-30ca-f115-ab2d2b26503d@gmail.com> (raw)
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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.
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