Re: Changing default ../data/ directory

Rich Shepard <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jan 2020 08:26:06 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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