From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, "Dave Cole" <daedcole@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Default data directory
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:21:18 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10809051421x4b28a20fl258fb2961c05710a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE388B40-72C2-4568-AB97-9E37280BC197@indiana.edu>
References: <EE388B40-72C2-4568-AB97-9E37280BC197@indiana.edu>
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We're building a test box for our webmaster to play in. It needs to have
> the same config as his production box. The postgres default data directory
> doesn't match the location of the data directory location on the production
> box. The postgresql.conf file has the line that says that it changes the
> default data location commented out. 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.
We don't quite have enough information to really troubleshoot this.
What OS, and how was pg installed in each if they're different.
If the webmaster needs a sandbox like production, then I would assume
the two OSes are the same, right?
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