Re: unbale to use pg_ctl in Windows Cmd.

Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:22:53 -0600

    On 12/5/20 11:02 AM, mark armon wrote:

                  pg_ctl status
pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA unset
Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.

C:\Users\Think>pg_ctl --help
pg_ctl is a utility to initialize, start, stop, or control a PostgreSQL server.

                I
                    don't know where the pg_data directory. So I set the
                    C:\Users\Think\Desktop\postgres\data as user
                    variable and
                    system variable In
                    windows setting. But still not working. In the bin directory,
                    there is pg_ctl.exe file.

    Randomly deciding on a directory because you don't know where the
    data actually is doesn't work.  You need to know where the data is.

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