Re: DANGER Windows version might hurt you

> I want to warn you all that you might hurt yourself by
> banging your head against the wall or damage your karma by
> using foul language if you find your postmaster rejecting to
> work after a minor change in the postgresql.conf. (I changed
> the listenig address to an IP instead of *.) Windows can't
> start the service anymore but says the program (Postgres)
> didn't issue an error message.
> Postgres doesn't write a logfile either.

Did you check the eventlog? It's supposed to write it there..

If it didn't, what version are you on?

> Line 322 was the last one and was a comment.
> So I suspected the lines before it which looked reasonably OK, too.
>
> After trying the sensible solutions I went via the improbaple
> to the ridiculous and there it was.
> My editor strips empty lines at the end of a textfile and
> sets EOF right after the last visible character so it dumps
> the CRLF of the last line and even though it was a comment
> Postmaster complaines about a syntax error and goes on strike.
>
> This should be mentioned in the FAQ if it isn't already.

Hmm. It isn't. And it probably should, yes - or the parser should be
fixed to deal with it.

Does this affect win32 only, or unix as well? Anybody know?

//Magnus