Carol Walter <walterc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well, it seems like that could happen. This is a machine that has a > instance of 8.2 running on it. My bash history says that the command > that I ran to start the 8.3.6 instance is > pg_ctl start -D /db02/postgres/data8.3.6/data -l data836.log. /db02/ > postgres/data8.3.6/data is where the data is. Does pg_ctl need of > full path, because this command probably ran the 8.2 version of that. I think pg_ctl tries to execute the postgres that's in the same directory it is. So if your PATH leads to the 8.2 copy of pg_ctl, the wrong thing will happen. You could fix your PATH, or explicitly write out the path to the 8.3 copy. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
