Re: pg_ctl problem

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:11 PM, <madhu.harchandani@wipro.com> wrote:

>
>  When running the pg_ctl command  i am facing this error
>  pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA
> unset
>  I use other options also but no solution was found.
>  could someone help me on this
>
Thats not enough information to resolve anything. Please be a bit more
descriptive.

Anyway, its pretty clear that you do not have PGDATA set in the environment.
So you need to run the command as follows:

pg_ctl -D /your/postgres/data/directory start

RTFM will definitely help.

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