Re: Alternate Database Locations

Okay...

I can now run as many postmasters as I could imagine... KICK BUTT!!!!

I am still running into a problem with the "alternate database 
locations"  and that is  I seem to be able to only set up 1 other alternate 
location.

After getting the first alt location setup Iset PGDATA2= /home/user1/database
export it
initdb -D /home/user1/database
started postmaster -D /home/user1/database initlocation 'PGDATA2'
createdb user1 -D 'PGDATA2'
it creates but it is putting it in /home/user/database
the first alt location i set up!!!

I know I am being a pain in the ass but I truly do appreciate all the help

 At 10:02 AM 10/26/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>"Brian C. Doyle" <bcdoyle@mindspring.com> writes:
> > Okay I am still doing something wrong here
> > I set PGDATA2=/home/user1/database
> > export PGDATA2
>
> > then I start postmaster
> > postmaster -d PGDATA2 -i -p  5431 &
>
>I think you are confusing the "alternate database directory" stuff with
>having a separate installation (primary directory).  To set up a second
>postmaster, you first have to initdb its installation directory:
>
>         initdb -D /home/user1/database
>
>then start the postmaster like so:
>
>         postmaster -D /home/user1/database -p whatever ...
>
>Instead of -D (note upper case), you can alternatively set env variable
>PGDATA for these two programs.
>
>The stuff in the manual about alternate database directories is to allow
>a *single* postmaster to manage databases located somewhere other than
>underneath its installation directory.  It's got nothing at all to do
>with starting additional postmasters.
>
>                         regards, tom lane