Re: Inconsistent pg_ctl behaviour: start vs. runservice

Steffen Macke wrote:
> [PostgreSQL 8.0beta1 on Windows 2000 Professional]
>
> In case of a leftover postmaster.pid, pg_ctl start
> tries to start anyway,
> but pg_ctl runservice (as installer by the PostgreSQL
> Windows installer) will not start the service, requiring a manual
> removal of postmaster.pid.
>
> Apparently no proper error code is returned on the service startup
> failure - I couldn't get the service
> recovery options to delete postmaster.pid (Tried batchfile and executable).

Yes, this pid file is a known problem we are researching.

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