Re: Changing default ../data/ directory

On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Jeff Janes wrote:

> PGDATA should work fine if you always start the server directly. But if
> you sudo or su to another user, they likely won't inherit your environment
> variables. And if you use some kind of start-up script, they will likely
> override it. How do you start and stop PostgreSQL?

Jeff,

Slackware's /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql start command. I can modify that script
to change the data directory path.

Thanks,

Rich