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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: cant' pg_ctl find pid file from PGDATA env variable?
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Msg-id 26896.1052317244@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to cant' pg_ctl find pid file from PGDATA env variable?  (Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>)
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com> writes:
> [root@ns3 root]# echo $PGDATA
> /usr/local/pgsql/data
> [root@ns3 root]# pg_ctl  reload
> pg_ctl: cannot find /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
> Is postmaster running?

Is PGDATA actually an environment variable --- that is, did you
"export" it?

            regards, tom lane

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