Re: pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres
Date: 2008-10-21 21:24:03
Message-ID: 10096.1224624243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
> I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows
> machine admin privileges.

> This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to
> postgres refusing to start with admin privileges.

> The error message from pg_ctl start -D bindir is PG_CTL.."could not
> locate matching postgres executable"

It's fairly hard to see how that mistake leads to that symptom.
Can you poke a bit more into exactly what is happening?

regards, tom lane

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