Re: pg_upgrade could not connect to server - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:30:44AM -0800, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote:
> > could not connect to old postmaster started with the command:
> > "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "E:\PGSQLData" -o "-p 50432 -b "
start
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > thanks!
> pg_upgrade_server_start.log contains the following:
>
> command: "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "E:\PGSQLData" -o "-p 50432 -b
"start >> "pg_upgrade_server_start.log" 2>&1 
> Access is denied.
> waiting for server to start........ stopped waiting

Yep, that's the problem all right.  The question is why is it failing?

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