[GENERAL] Changing the location of the default data directory on PG 9.6.6(CentOS 7)? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Robert Gordon
Subject [GENERAL] Changing the location of the default data directory on PG 9.6.6(CentOS 7)?
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I’m trying to identify which postgresql.conf file I should be editing, in order to change the default database files location for Postgres 9.6.6, when installed on CentOS 7.x/

 

Is the bet method for changing the default data directory at the time of database init, to include the $PGDATA variable at initialization, such as:

su - postgres -c '/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/initdb --pgdata=$PGDATA', where $PGDATA is the directory path that I want the psql database files to reside?

 

 

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