"Magnus Hagander" <mha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> [ changing PGDATA doesn't seem to work on Windows ] > Are you running it as a service:? If so you need to reconfigure the service. Unfortunatly,the only way to do this is using regedit. Go to > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\pgsql-8.1 Is this documented anywhere? Certainly our SGML manuals don't talk about anything except the Unix case. Perhaps there needs to be a chapter in the Server Administration section about managing a Windows PG server. Or is all that in the installer docs? regards, tom lane