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From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: How to I relocate the Postgresql data directory
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Msg-id AANLkTi=-3T+e5Bn-mJ8YAmoKkMH=qxPbJhfe=oKsJyEn@mail.gmail.com
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In response to How to I relocate the Postgresql data directory  ("Vorpal" <vorpalswordsman@shaw.ca>)
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Vorpal <vorpalswordsman@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> PostgreSQL was installed as part of other software.
> The data folder is a subfolder of D:\Program Files\
> Specifically:
> "D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -w -N
> "pgsql-8.3" -D "D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\"
>
> For various reasons I would like the data directory to be:
> G:\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\"
>
> I created this directory, and changed the line in the service startup,
> however the service threw an error on startup.

Almost...  What's the exact error?  I'm no windows guy but I'm
guessing we can figure it out from the error.

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