Ludo Smissaert <ludo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Both methods works fine on server startup, but the first method gives > problems when stopping the server with pg_ctl. Yeah, pg_ctl is far too stupid to cope with such things --- it expects that PGDATA points at the data directory. Short of teaching it to parse the config file it's not clear what we could do about that. 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