Chiiwen, have you checked that the user your PostgreSQL service will be running under (usually named "postgres" has full access to your PostgreSQL Data directory (E:\Postgre\8.4\data)?
You can do this by: runas /user:postgres cmd change directory to e:\postgre\8.4 and find out, what you are seeing as postgres best wishes Harald On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Chiiwen Liou <[email protected]> wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 4839 > Logged by: Chiiwen Liou > Email address: [email protected] > PostgreSQL version: 8.4 Beta 2 > Operating system: Windows XP service 3 > Description: cannot start Postgre server on Windows XP SP3 > Details: > > I installed postgre server and it works. when I tried to started, it > failed. > This is from command line. > the configure file exist on the directory. > > E:\Progra~1\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin\pg_ctl.exe start -D E:\Postgre\8.4\data -w > waiting for server to start...postgres cannot access the server > configuration fi > le "E:/Postgre/8.4/data/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory > > -- > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list ([email protected]) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs > -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 no fx, no carrier pigeon - LASIK good, steroids bad?
