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Subject: Re: Moving database directories
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 12:40:26 PST

In message <9212172031.AA13580@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> you write:

>    ...
>    
> I have tried this and do not believe it works.   Postgres wants
> to open files in the parent (..) directory, but (..) won't work after 
> you've followed a sym-link.

you're right; relative pathname addressing has been removed from the
current development version of the system, and will be out in the
next release.

> A possible solution might be to have both POSTGRESHOME and POSTGRESDATA
> environment variables and not use .. if POSTGRESDATA is defined.  This
> would, I believe, allow the manual instructions above to work.

again, you're right; this is what we've done in the development version.

					mike