On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:04 -0700, Anne M. Hammond wrote:
> If there is another way to do this, such as command line options
> or environmental values for initdb, I haven't found it.
There's no need to run initdb on the smaller machine.
Run the initdb on the larger machine, then *while postmaster is
shutdown* copy the entire data directory across to the smaller machine.
From there you can edit the postgresql.conf and startup.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs