Re: PostgreSQL on Windows not starting

> I have a customer who is having issues starting PostgreSQL
> 8.1 on Windows. It worked for a while and now doesn't appear
> to be running. I thought it was probably a stale pidfile,
> but had him search and could not find it. Is the pid
> information still in a pidfile or is it in the registry
> somewhere on Windows? I am suggesting that he try to start
> the service manually and look for error messages. But in the
> mean time I thought I would ask.

PID file is still used, but I beleive most issues with that one has been
solved by now. And if that is your problem, it should show up fine in
the error messags. Just remember to check all locations (startup
messages go in the eventlog, but if you're using the standard config
once postgresql.conf is loaded the rest of the mesages go in the pg_log
directory)

//Magnus