Re: BUG #4006: pg_ctl assumes that all config files lie in data_directory - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From David Schweikert
Subject Re: BUG #4006: pg_ctl assumes that all config files lie in data_directory
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Msg-id 20080303190937.GA1433@schweikert.ch
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In response to Re: BUG #4006: pg_ctl assumes that all config files lie in data_directory  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Hi,

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:12:16 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>   pg_ctl can not read the pid file because it isn't located in the
>   config directory but in the PGDATA directory.  The solution is to
>   allow pg_ctl to read and understand postgresql.conf to find the
>   data_directory value.

What about adding a command-line option to specify a different
configuration file? That would be certainly less nice, but also much
easier to implement, I guess.

Cheers
David

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