Re: Start service

From: Nick Ivanov <nick(dot)ivanov(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Brad White <b55white(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Start service
Date: 2023-09-22 18:48:00
Message-ID: CALP_NYS=nA33zU4qOOrerdpkQo7tGDun_1qyGki0rQHE0tcrRw@mail.gmail.com
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I'd check if there is already "postmaster.pid" in C:\Program
Files\PostgreSQL\15\data, left over from a previous abend.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 2:40 PM Brad White <b55white(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm trying to start a v15 service on a Windows 2012 R2 server where it
> hasn't been used for a while.
> The service is set to run as pgUser.
> ...
> If I sub 'start' for 'runservice' and try to start it from CLI, I get
> C:\Users\administrator>"C:\Program
> Files\PostgreSQL\15\bin\pg_ctl.exe" start
> -N "postgresql-x64-15" -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\data" -w
> waiting for server to start....2023-09-22 12:48:05.438 CDT [4796]
> FATAL: could
> not create lock file "postmaster.pid": Permission denied
>

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Nick Ivanov
Solution Architect
www.enterprisedb.com

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