Re: alternative DB locations

> Jeff Hoffmann <jeff@propertykey.com> writes:
> > not to be pedantic, but just to make sure, i looked in the 7.0 docs and
> > it says it plain as day on the "alternate locations" section from the
> > admin guide, second paragraph "This
> > environment variable must have been defined before the backend was
> > started"  this is an incredibly common question for being spelled out
> > that directly in the documentation.  this statement should probably be
> > bold or italic or otherwise emphasized,
>
> Actually, first it should be *corrected*.  It should say "... defined
> before the POSTMASTER is started".  Or even more directly, "... supplied
> in the postmaster's environment variable set".

Agreed.  Corrected.  Man, initlocation is a mess of a configuration.

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