Hannes Dorbath <light@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I want to have postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf outside the directory > created by initDB. > $PGDATA points to the directory the config files reside in (and nothing > else) and in postgresql.conf the option "data_directory" is set to the > directory containing the cluster created by initDB. I can use pg_ctl > start but pg_ctl stop failes as it expects the pid file in the dir with > the config files. I think you want pg_ctl's PGDATA pointing to the data_directory. pg_ctl does not know anything about the config files, and in particular is not smart enough to parse them to find the data_directory value. regards, tom lane
