On 05/18/2011 07:31 PM, G. P. wrote:
> can I download from somewhere "clean" pg_hba.conf / postgresql.conf with
> default values, just to ensure that the failure is caused by them ?
AFAIK they're generated by the installer, as they contain paths specific
to your installation. So not really.
It sounds like you might want to try to start Pg using pg_ctl via
runas.exe to run it as the postgres user account and see what error(s)
are produced.
See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx
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Craig Ringer