On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 04:18 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote:
> On Tue, September 25, 2007 3:34 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > need some clarification on whether there is a config file sourced by the
> > init script to determine where PGDATA is located.
> >
> > Right now, it seems like it's not sourced from anywhere by located on
> > the init file itself.
> >
> > Appreciate if you guys can let me know if this is the correct place for
> > altering it.
>
> Multiple instances of Postgres database will have separate init scripts.
> The location of the config file for each init script is
>
> /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/<init-script-name>
>
> For example, for the default init script (/etc/init.d/postgresql) that
> gets installed with Postgres, the config file is
> /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/postgresql . Although the /etc/sysconfig/pgsql
> directory gets created when Postgres is installed, you will not find any
> config files in it initially. In order to change the default PGDATA
> (and/or PGPORT) values, you sill need to create appropriately named config
> file that will look like this:
>
> PGDATA=/data/pg
> PGPORT=3456
>
Missed the below in the 1st glance. Thanks for the pointer and sorry for
the lateness. I only re-started to look at this again now. (My test bed
was my laptop running gentoo)
# Override defaults from /etc/sysconfig/pgsql if file is present
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/${NAME} ] && . /etc/sysconfig/pgsql/${NAME}
export PGDATA
export PGPORT
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