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From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Changing default ../data/ directory
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In response to Re: Changing default ../data/ directory  (nikhil raj <nikhilraj474@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, nikhil raj wrote:

> Step 1-: Stop the postgres services and change the path of the
> data directory in postgres.conf file.

The postgresql.conf.sample notes that the default value of data_directory is
taken from -D in the startup command or the PGDATA environment variable. I
suppose that I can define PGDATA in ~/.bash_profile as I'm the only user.

Thanks,

Rich

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