[TLM] Re: pg_ctl start fails on Windows

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Abraham, Danny" <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com>
Subject: [TLM] Re: pg_ctl start fails on Windows
Date: 2007-12-24 17:54:48
Message-ID: 20071224175730.EB96A414281@qatlm3.calidad2.pandasoftware.com
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--- On Mon, 12/24/07, Abraham, Danny <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com> wrote:

> I can manually create the file "postmaster.pid",
> so the problem
> Does not look like a permission problem.

I had a similar problem once. For some reason, after I installed a windows service pack update, my Postgresql directory was altered to be READ-ONLY. Once this happened, postgresql wan't able to start.

After spending a quited a bit of time to dicover the cause of the problem, I simply had to reset the directoy to be write-able.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

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