Re: PostgreSQL fails to start

Eddie,

> It also seems to show a weakness in PostgreSQL's logging, in that (a) it
> would help a lot if it just printed its error to stderr, and (b) the log
> message it did send to the event log was of the form "directory not found"
> rather than "permission denied".
>

problem for sending to stderr: there is no stderr for a service; so using
the eventlog is the "thing to do" for services.

And "permission denied" is the error PostgreSQL gets from the operating
system when trying to access its datadirectory; Windows will (correctly!)
not allow an non-permitted user to query for existence of things it has no
access to.

best wishes,

Harald

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