Find file
Mumia W.
paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 3 01:20:50 UTC 2008
On 09/01/2008 04:40 AM, buters wrote:
> Thank you Mumia very much,
>
>> Why do you need to find the files containing your database?
>
> pg_ctl restart [-w] [-D DATADIR] [-s] [-m SHUTDOWN-MODE] [-o "OPTIONS"]
> This is a restart usage for pg_ctl, if a db should be restarted.
>
> If I try:
> **************************************
> $ pg_ctl restart
> **************************************
>
> I get:
> **************************************
> pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA
> unset
> **************************************
>
> There is in /var/lib/postgresql/ only a data directory, so-called data area
> (a collection of dbs), under which all data are stored. But I want to know,
> how I can only restart my db. Also I need a db directory.
>
> Best Regards, buters.
>
I've never used pgsql, but you might get results by specifying the
database directory, e.g.:
pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql restart
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