Moved database question

Bayless Kirtley 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?

You didn't tell us what platform you're using. What does your startup
script have for PGDATA?

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...