Re: Postgres: Packaging & Server Startup

Hi,

I don't have multiple postgres installed.Anyway, tried your suggestion
to use the full path name and here is what i get:

D:\pgsql\bin>D:\pgsql\bin\pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start
-D:\pgsql\data

pg_ctl: could not open PID file ":/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid": Invalid
argument

There is no data directory created by default (i used
no-installer-zip file to install postgres), so i went ahead and created a
dummy data directory which gave the same result as above. Any suggestions ??

Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:

> CM J wrote:
> > pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start -D D:\pgsql\data
> >
> > However, i get the following error message:
> >
> > waiting for server to start...FATAL: postgres: could not locate matching
> > postgres executable
>
> That does seem to suggest it found the executable but it didn't match
> versions with the data directory. Do you have two copies installed? If
> so, you'll probably want to specify the complete path to pg_ctl
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>