pxf
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Manage the PXF service instance on a segment host.
Synopsis
pxf <command> [<option>]
where <command> is:
cluster
help
init
restart
start
status
stop
sync
version
Description
The pxf
utility manages the PXF service instances on Greenplum Database segment hosts.
You can initialize, start, stop, restart the PXF service instance on a specific segment host. You can display the status of the PXF service instance running on a host. You can also synchronize PXF configuration from the master to a specific Greenplum Database segment host.
To initialize, start, and stop the PXF service instance on all segment hosts in the Greenplum Database cluster, use the pxf cluster
command. See pxf cluster
.
Commands
pxf cluster
.pxf
management utility help message and then exit.$PXF_CONF
. If you do not set $PXF_CONF
prior to initializing PXF, PXF prompts you to accept or decline the default user configuration directory, $HOME/pxf
, during the initialization process. See Options.pxf sync
on the master host. See Options.Options
The pxf init
command takes the following option:
$PXF_CONF
directory location if the environment variable is not set.The pxf sync
command takes the following option:
Examples
Start the PXF service instance on the local segment host:
$ $GPHOME/pxf/bin/pxf start