Re: [Gnumed-devel] ok... this (postgres) is getting very annoying!

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> To the default files in the directory
>    /etc/postgresql/8.3/main
>
> I made some backups and, in doing so, noticed that postgres did not have 
> write-permission to the files in this directory... are the permissions of 
> these files meant to stay the following way?
Yes.

> The annoying part came after I tried to reload the alterations that I  
> had made...
>
> address@hidden:~$ pg_ctl reload
> bash: pg_ctl: command not found
> address@hidden:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/pg_ctl reload
> pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA 
> unset
> Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
> address@hidden:~$

Any particular reason why you don't use the recommended
"/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 restart" ?

> Huh? Despite that I did not touch the default postgres data cluster  
> initialization, am I supposed to have to specify
>    -D  /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main
No. The script does it for you on behalf of the standard
Debian installation.

> and/or should I be having to set the PGDATA environment variable
No.

> and/or should I be adding to my $PATH
>       /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/
No.

See above.

Karsten
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