thanks for your reply. we use postgres zip, during install time of our product, on target host this zip will be extracted. We are not creating data directory, when service is started by default data directory will be created.
we created/registered the service with below commands
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
PHANIKUMAR G schrieb am 01.10.2016 um 17:30:
We then tried to start the service with the following changes.
a. we changed the "Log on as" type to "This account" b. changed the account name to ".\<local account with admin privileges>" c. And entered the password for this account and saved.
After that we are able to start the postgresql service successfully.
Found that the pg_log directory is created under data directory with postgres-Sep.log
Why it is failing with local system account, the local system account is part of administrators group. If we specifically provide credentials to the service as explained above, service getting started. Please help me to understand what is causing.
Where is the data directory? And how did you create the data directory?
Check the privileges on the data directory. This sounds as if the local system account does not have the privilege to write to the data directory.
The local system account (or "Administrator") don't have the privilege to read and write all files. Those accounts only have the ability to give themselves these privileges.
Also: if I'm not mistaken, Postgres 9.3 creates the service with the "Local Network Service", not with "Local System Account"
