Re: 8.4 win32 shared memory patch

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 09:25, Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> 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.

Clearly I'm not awake yet. That's obviously 8.4rc1 and 8.4.0.

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