On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:04 -0700, Anne M. Hammond wrote: > If there is another way to do this, such as command line options > or environmental values for initdb, I haven't found it. There's no need to run initdb on the smaller machine. Run the initdb on the larger machine, then *while postmaster is shutdown* copy the entire data directory across to the smaller machine. >From there you can edit the postgresql.conf and startup. Best Regards, Simon Riggs