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From: Ben Kim <bkim@tamu.edu>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Default data directory
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:38:39 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0809051631160.3823@coe.tamu.edu> (raw)
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References: <EE388B40-72C2-4568-AB97-9E37280BC197@indiana.edu>
	<dcc563d10809051421x4b28a20fl258fb2961c05710a@mail.gmail.com>

> Is there somewhere else that postgres can get this information?
> I can't figure out how the Postgres that's running on the production web
> server knows where to look for its data.

Could it be the compile time setting? I guess you can try

     # pg_config --configure

and the --prefix=... will likely be where the "data" sits?


Regards,

Ben Kim



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