Re: Windows Dependency Issue

Hello Pete,

There is certainly a Windows command you can run that will alter the
command used to start a service - it's "sc" (which can also be used to
start/stop a service programmatically.)
The command syntax to modify the EXE path is:

sc config <service name> binpath= "<path to EXE>"

(eg.)
sc config "PostgreSQL Database Server <version>" binpath= "C:\Program
Files\PostgreSQL\bin\<postmaster EXE and flags>"

If it's successful, you'll get the message: "[SC] ChangeServiceConfig
SUCCESS"

Also note there's a space between "binpath=" and the EXE name - that
took me a while to figure out!

Hope this can be of use.

Andy.

Peter Egan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a windows-based server that uses postgres (8.1) as the db. We
> use a 'silent install' to install postgres as a windows service. Our
> server is then installed as a service with a dependency on postgres.
>
> As seen in other posts, to ensure that postgres starts up before the
> server starts, one should use the pg_ctl command with the '-w'
> flag. When installed as a service, the '-w' flag isn't set.
>
> My question - is there a way to set this '-w' flag through the silent
> install process? Or is there another way to accomplish this without
> requiring the user to set this after the installation process?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
> !DSPAM:37,459d40d631947254553576!

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