Re: Alternate Database Locations - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Brian C. Doyle writes:

> Okay I am still doing something wrong here
> 
> I set PGDATA2=/home/user1/database
> export PGDATA2
> 
> then I start postmaster
> postmaster -d PGDATA2 -i -p  5431 &

postmaster -D $PGDATA -i -p 5431 >logfile 2>&1 </dev/null &

> and i get
> 
> Can't create pid file: /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
> Is another postmaster (pid: 10686) running?

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