<arg choice="plain"><option>-B</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>newbindir</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
- <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>olddatadir</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>oldconfigdir</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>-D</option></arg>
- <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>newdatadir</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>newconfigdir</replaceable></arg>
<arg rep="repeat"><replaceable>option</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-d</option> <replaceable>datadir</></term>
- <term><option>--old-datadir=</option><replaceable>datadir</></term>
- <listitem><para>the old cluster data directory; environment
+ <term><option>-d</option> <replaceable>configdir</></term>
+ <term><option>--old-datadir=</option><replaceable>configdir</></term>
+ <listitem><para>the old database cluster configuration directory; environment
variable <envar>PGDATAOLD</></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-D</option> <replaceable>datadir</></term>
- <term><option>--new-datadir=</option><replaceable>datadir</></term>
- <listitem><para>the new cluster data directory; environment
+ <term><option>-D</option> <replaceable>configdir</></term>
+ <term><option>--new-datadir=</option><replaceable>configdir</>y</term>
+ <listitem><para>the new database cluster configuration directory; environment
variable <envar>PGDATANEW</></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<title>Save configuration files</title>
<para>
- Save any configuration files from the old standbys' data
+ Save any configuration files from the old standbys' configuration
directories you need to keep, e.g. <filename>postgresql.conf</>,
<literal>recovery.conf</>, because these will be overwritten or
removed in the next step.