Re: freebsd sample startup script doesn't work

Vivek Khera writes:

> I see clearly that PGDATA is set and exported.  I'm suspecting that
> the "su -l" causes the environment to disappear.  My guess is that
> whomever wrote this script has PGDATA set in the ~/.profile (or
> equivalent) in the postgres user's home directory.

This is fixed in the soon to be released 7.1.1.

> Also, the following line in the start action of the sript is useful:
>
>         /sbin/ldconfig -m $prefix/lib

You ought to run this once, not every time the system starts.

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