> Looking at the documentation, David is apparently following this one,
> which seems wrong...
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/app-initlocation.htm
>
> Seems like it should be updated to the following:
>
> $ export PGDATA2=/opt/postgres/data
> $ initlocation $PGDATA2
> $ createdb testdb -D $PGDATA2
I have fixed the docs source, but I don't think the docs have been
regenerated since the fix weeks ago. The postmaster must have PGDATA2
defined in its environment.
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