Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> --- On Thu, 11/15/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> > What is the problem with the file?
>
> I looked at the pg_control file, postgres had the proper permission to it.
>
> > Why is it not accessible to Postgres?
> > My guess is that something (antivirus?) was messing with
> > the file when the system died.
>
> It seems that last night a windows service pack as added. I noticed that the global directory was marked as
(grey-ed)read-only. I removed the read-only flag and postgres started up :-). I restarted my antivirus and postgres is
stillworking.
>
> Is the global directory supposed to be marked read only?
I don't think so. Postgres writes to it.
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