> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 20:30, Kevin Field<kevinjamesfield@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > The event viewer says:
> >> >
> >> > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( PostgreSQL )
> > > > cannot
> >> > be
> >> > found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
> >> > information or message DLL files to display messages from a
> > > > remote
> >> > computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to
> > > > retrieve
> >> > this
> >> > description; see Help and Support for details. The following
> >> > information is part of the event: pg_ctl: could not find
> > > > postgres
> >> > program executable
> >> >
> >> > And yes, I renamed it correctly...
> >>
> >> Check permissions on it. If you moved it at some point, it may
> > > have
> >> the wrong permissions. They should be the same as for the other
> > > .EXEs
> >> in that directory.
> >
> > The two files (new and old exe) have identical permissions.
>
> That's just weird. It could be that the postgres executable won't
> work
> - maybe because of some DLL issue. Can you run "postgres -V" on the
> executable, or does that give you some error?
It reports the version correctly. Sorry...any other ideas?
