On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > > /var resides on /dev/sda, and /data in /dev/sdb > > I bet you're running a default installation of postgres which has it's > data in /var. > Check your real data directory by running 'ps auxww|grep post', and see > what's after the '-D' parameter... and then when you figure out that the > startup script is using the system default and not what you've > initdb-ed, fix your start script ;-) nope! i have purposefully deselected postgres 7.4 installation at OS install. then downloaded postgresql sources of 8.1.4 and installed it in /usr/local/pgsql with data dir as /data/pgdata. later , i have set PGDATA to /data/pgdata in startup script from contrib/scripts of sources and placed it in /etc/init.d to be sure, i re-checked with rpm -qa|postgres too which didnt give me any package listing. ps auxww |grep postgresql gives /data/pgdata as the data dir. whats happening ? regards, KM
