Re: pg_ctl in Windows

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: libcub(at)hotmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_ctl in Windows
Date: 2020-01-17 22:47:19
Message-ID: 20200117224719.GB14054@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 03:22:10AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-pg-ctl.html
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> Could it be added that in Windows pg_ctl needs to be run as administrator? I
> spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the program didn't run, before
> I found the answer online.

We don't have a lot of operating-spefic text in our docs, so a better
solution might be to issue an error message suggesting the cause. What
command are you running and what does the failure look like?

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