Re: pg_ctl start fails on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma Jr
Subject Re: pg_ctl start fails on Windows
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Msg-id 745207.56836.qm@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to pg_ctl start fails on Windows  ("Abraham, Danny" <danny_abraham@bmc.com>)
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--- On Mon, 12/24/07, Abraham, Danny <danny_abraham@bmc.com> wrote:

> I can manually create the file "postmaster.pid",
> so the problem
> Does not look like a permission problem.

I had a similar problem once.  For some reason, after I installed a windows service pack update, my Postgresql
directorywas altered to be READ-ONLY.  Once this happened, postgresql wan't able to start. 

After spending a quited a bit of time to dicover the cause of the problem, I simply had to reset the directoy to be
write-able.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

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