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> On Dec 5, 2020, at 10:02 AM, mark armon <1994hejian@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I don't know where the pg_data directory.

You will have to find it to use pg_ctl

> So I set the C:\Users\Think\Desktop\postgres\data as user variable and =
system variable In windows setting.=20

Doesn't do any good if that's not where the data directory is.=