On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
<peter(dot)jolles(at)ge(dot)com> wrote:
> I apologize for the seeming dumb questions, but I have tried to start
> the database using the following command:
>
> postgres --single -D "d:/database" mydatabase
>
> That gets me a new line in my command prompt window and nothing else.
> Postgres 8.4 at least throws a warning if I am not logged in as an under
>
Does the user you are logged in under have write permission to the
d:/database directory? What you should get is a postgres command line
prompt.