You need to specify where the installations data directory is
sudo /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /path/to/data reload
For example, on my machine:
sudo -u pgsql /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data reload
Although you may have to do this as the postgres/pgsql user rather than root
(not sure about this part though)
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> Have an installation which comes from Marks site entropy.cz.
>
> But I can't restart the server.
>
> Error message:
>
> [indigo:~] victor% sudo /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl reload
> pg_ctl: no database directory or environment variable $PGDATA is
> specified
> Try 'pg_ctl --help' for more information.
> [indigo:~] victor%
>
> Please help! ;)
>
> Sincerely
>
> Victor
>
>
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