On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Bayless Kirtley <bkirt@cox.net> wrote:
> I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after a
> pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on the new
> location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump.
>
> My problem now is that I have to supply the full pathnames to start or stop
> the server. Otherwise it still wants to access the old location which no
> longer exists. What am I missing to make the new (and only existing)
> location be the Postgres default?
That very much depends on which OS / version you're on and how you
installed postgresql...
