Re: pg_ctl -w with postgresql.conf in non-default path

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl -w with postgresql.conf in non-default path
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:07:14 -0400

> Try setting the port for pg_ctl: PGPORT=nnn pg_ctl -D datadir -w start

Thank you, andrew, I understand what I did was not right way to specify the port.
And finally i found the way to specify the path of postgresql.conf file
in the manual 18.2.

| If you wish to keep the configuration files elsewhere than the data directory,
| the postgres -D command-line option or PGDATA environment variable must point
| to the directory containing the configuration files, and the data_directory
| parameter must be set in postgresql.conf (or on the command line) to show
| where the data directory is actually located.

This is very complicated and not intuitive way but I understand in this case
pg_ctl.c works well.

Regards.

-- 
HIRANO Yoshitaka