BUG #5041: Changing data_directory problem
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5041
Logged by: Jonas
Email address: jonasdonovan@hotmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4
Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10
Description: Changing data_directory problem
Details:
After changing data_directory - in the same way as I did for postgres 8.3 -
postgres 8.4 gives me:
root@ip-10-224-94-129:/mnt/postgresql/8.4/main# sudo
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start
* Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server
Error: could not exec /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D /mnt/postgresql/8.4
/main -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log -s -o -c
config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf" :
On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:29:54 Jonas wrote:
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5041
Logged by: Jonas
Email address: jonasdonovan@hotmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4
Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10
Description: Changing data_directory problem
Details:After changing data_directory - in the same way as I did for postgres 8.3 -
postgres 8.4 gives me:
How did you do it in 8.3?
Andres
Jonas [2009-09-06 17:29 +0000]:
After changing data_directory - in the same way as I did for postgres 8.3 -
The official way is to move the directory and set "data_directory" in
postgresql.conf. (Or create a new cluster with the -d/--datadir option).
Is that what you did?
Please give us the output of "pg_lsclusters".
Thanks, Martin
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