Re: Should I reinstall over current installation?

Moreno, thank you for all your help.

Following your instructions, I was able to recover my databases. All is
good.

Chris

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 6:45 AM Moreno Andreo <moreno(dot)andreo(at)evolu-s(dot)it>
wrote:

> Il 04/02/2020 21:18, Chris Charley ha scritto:
> > Hello Moreno
> >
> > Thanks for the reply!
> >
> > I ran Services and it reported postsql as Disabled.
>
> A disabled service will never run nor leave error messages anywhere
>
> Right click on the Postgresql service, select properties.
> In the next window, choose startup type (the combo under the executable
> path) and select Automatic, then click on the Start button below
> Click OK and close the window.
>
> Now something should happen. If everything goes well, You'll see
> "Started" and "Automatic" in the two columns next to the service
> description, and you can start your application
> If there is an error message, then it should log something. See my last
> mail to extract log informations and post them here
>
> > I am considering reinstall because I couldn't find any helpful info
> > from these services.
>
> You got no helpful info because service does not start, andd so does not
> log.... :-)
>
> > Thanks again for your help.
> > I suspect when Windows was reinstalled, the firewall was reconfigured
> > and PostgreSQL wasn't allowed to access the port?
>
> ATM there's a service start issue to be resolved, if there's also
> something about the firewall, we'll think about it later.
>
> Moreno.-
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