Re: PostgreSQL on Windows not starting - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oisin Glynn
Subject Re: PostgreSQL on Windows not starting
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Msg-id 4418E08F.6050502@oisinglynn.com
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In response to PostgreSQL on Windows not starting  (Chris Travers <chris@verkiel.metatrontech.com>)
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Chris Travers wrote:

> I have a customer who is having issues starting PostgreSQL 8.1 on
> Windows.  It worked for a while and now doesn't appear to be running.
> I thought it was probably a stale pidfile, but had him search and
> could not find it.  Is the pid information still in a pidfile or is it
> in the registry somewhere on Windows?  I am suggesting that he try to
> start the service manually and look for error messages.  But in the
> mean time I thought I would ask.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
> Metatron Technology Consulting
>
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Possile reason I hit a while ago was the account that was created for
the PostgreSQL service was set to need a PWD change at login and so the
service would not start,  I was looking in all sorts of other areas
before I spotted it, I think it was due to some domain policy as I had
not seen it before or since. Or perhaps the account pwd is set to expire.

Oisin

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