On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Lee Hachadoorian
<lee.hachadoorian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last week I set up Postgres 8.3 on a WindowsXP machine. Had it up and
> running and imported data. Now when I try to start the server (after
> a machine restart) I get the message:
>
> ********************************************************************************************
> pg_ctl: another server might be running; trying to start server anyway
> PANIC: could not open control file "global/pg_control": Permission denied
Or it could just be that you do already have another postmaster up and
running already.
