Re: 8.4 win32 shared memory patch

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 19:13, Kevin Field<kevinjamesfield(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 20:30, Kevin Field<kevinjamesfield(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > The event viewer says:
>> >> >
>> >> > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( PostgreSQL )
>> > > > cannot
>> >> > be
>> >> > found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
>> >> > information or message DLL files to display messages from a
>> > > > remote
>> >> > computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to
>> > > > retrieve
>> >> > this
>> >> > description; see Help and Support for details. The following
>> >> > information is part of the event: pg_ctl: could not find
>> > > > postgres
>> >> > program executable
>> >> >
>> >> > And yes, I renamed it correctly...
>> >>
>> >> Check permissions on it. If you moved it at some point, it may
>> > > have
>> >> the wrong permissions. They should be the same as for the other
>> > > .EXEs
>> >> in that directory.
>> >
>> > The two files (new and old exe) have identical permissions.
>>
>> That's just weird. It could be that the postgres executable won't
>> work
>> - maybe because of some DLL issue. Can you run "postgres -V" on the
>> executable, or does that give you some error?
>
> It reports the version correctly.  Sorry...any other ideas?

For the archives: I worked off-list with Kevin and we noticed that the
issue was that the *old* version was 8.0rc1, thus pg_ctl was looking
for 8.0rc1. Upgrading to 8.0 first and then applying the new
postgres.exe binary appears to have worked.

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