On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:34 AM, <Jan-Peter.Seifert@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > without success I tried to set the default tablespace via the environment variable PGOPTIONS. > > My tries: > set PGOPTIONS="default_tablespace='pgdata'" > set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace='pgdata' > set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace(pgdata) > set PGOPTIONS=default_tablespace('pgdata') > > When I try to connect to the server via psql I get the error message: "FATAL: invalid command-line arguments for server process. HINT: Try "postgres --help" for more information." I do this one of two ways usually. Either I set the user / database to have a default tablespace permanently via alter user / database, or I put it at the top of my script I'm running. PGOPTIONS isn't really the place I think of setting it myself. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin