Re: pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres
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Msg-id 10096.1224624243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
Responses Re: pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres
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Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows  
> machine admin privileges.

> This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to  
> postgres refusing to start with admin privileges.

> The error message from pg_ctl start -D bindir is PG_CTL.."could not  
> locate matching postgres executable"

It's fairly hard to see how that mistake leads to that symptom.
Can you poke a bit more into exactly what is happening?
        regards, tom lane


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