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From	Daniel Vázquez
Subject	initdb $PGDATA not working
Date	February 9, 2012 20:26:07
Msg-id	CA+KJVfx6X0sESZ_R4BjJSMTHdykxUnuo7vidRSYTAKc6=bZa=g@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: initdb $PGDATA not working (Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>) Re: initdb $PGDATA not working (Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>) Re: initdb $PGDATA not working (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>) Re: initdb $PGDATA not working (Daniel Vázquez <daniel2d2art@gmail.com>)
List	pgsql-general

Hi!

I've set my PGDATA variable in profile

export PGDATA=/home/mydata/pgsql/data

Testing variable for correct set in enviroment

$ echo $PGDATA

/home/mydata/pgsql/data

but when execute:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb

or execute:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb -D /home/mydata/pgsql/data

The cluster always is created on default path "/var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data/"

Will install in CentOS 5.7

Thx

From: Rich Shepard
Date: 09 February 2012, 19:51:07
Subject: Re: Strategy for Primary Key Generation When Populating Table

From: Andy Colson
Date: 09 February 2012, 20:39:37
Subject: Re: initdb $PGDATA not working