[postgis-users] Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 7.5/PostGIS snapshot

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of bartvde at xs4all.nl
> Sent: 28 May 2004 15:13
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 7.5/PostGIS snapshot
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> great. Finally I got PostGIS to work on Windows thanks to you.
> 
> What would be involved in changing the data directory to 
> another drive (my
> c: drive is not large enough for all the data I want to put 
> into PostGIS)?
> 
> Do I only need to change the following line in initdb.bat:
> 
> initdb.exe -D c:\pgsql75win\data
> 
> or is there more effort involved?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart


Hi Bart,

That's close :). The initdb.exe just builds the directory structure for
an empty database to use. You also need to alter pgstart.bat to point
the postmaster.exe to the new database cluster you created using
initdb.bat. So if you change initdb.bat and pgstart.bat to point to the
same directory with the -D parameter then everything should work fine
for you.


Cheers,

Mark.

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