Bug 75156

Summary: /etc/init.d/postgresql inconsistency.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Terje Kvernes <terjekv>
Component: postgresqlAssignee: Tom Lane <tgl>
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Version: 7.2CC: hhorak
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Description Terje Kvernes 2002-10-04 21:46:28 UTC 
/etc/init.d/postgresql uses $PGDATA as a variable containing the path to the
database, but still hardcodes the database path if it has to init the database.
 line 122, looks as follows:

su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data >
/dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

exchanging /var/lib/pgsql/data with $PGDATA might be a good idea. ;-)
Comment 1 Andrew Overholt 2003-03-04 17:35:15 UTC 
Assigning to me.
Comment 2 Andrew Overholt 2003-03-12 22:56:22 UTC 
Reassigning.
Comment 3 Tom Lane 2004-08-25 19:51:01 UTC 
This seems to have been fixed somewhere along the way --- the current
initscripts use $PGDATA appropriately AFAICS.