On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Bayless Kirtley <bkirt@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after a > pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on the new > location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump. > > My problem now is that I have to supply the full pathnames to start or stop > the server. Otherwise it still wants to access the old location which no > longer exists. What am I missing to make the new (and only existing) > location be the Postgres default? That very much depends on which OS / version you're on and how you installed postgresql...