On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Bernt Drange <badrange(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 7:03 pm, alvhe(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)commandprompt(dot)com (Alvaro Herrera) wrote:
>> Bernt Drange escribió:
>>
>> > After a lot of fiddling with being able to enter single user mode on a
>> > windows machine (I had to figure out how to run the command line as
>> > the correct user, then for some reason -D didn't work, but SET
>> > PGDATA=xxx worked), I finally managed to fix my problem.
>>
>> Hmm, the -D thing not working should probably be studied -- perhaps
>> we're missing escaping something somewhere. Does the PGDATA path
>> contain spaces or weird chars?
>
> From memory the path was something like: F:\Postgresql Database\data.
> I quoted it with double quotes. Without -D postgres.exe complained
> about not finding the data path, with it postgres.exe complained about
> not finding the config file, stating that it looked in (from memory
> vague) F:\Postgresql Database\data\postgres\somethingmore. Adding the
> --config-file parameter didn't help.
>
> Is this enough information for you to start digging a bit more? If
> not, I might find the exact messages, but I'm reluctant to do it on
> this production database..
I'm pretty sure the problem is with the space between Postgresql and
Database. Not sure if it's fixed in later releases or not.