Hey Richard, I tried both things, both same results as before :( Hope there is a solution for this! Thanks for the replies so far :)
Looking forward to hearing from you, FF. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote: First thing to do is to reduce the shared_buffers value that you will find in your postgresql.conf file (Have a look in your start menu - might be listed there, if not it's in the installation and you can edit it with notepad - it's a simple text file). Somewhere not too far down is a shared_buffers setting (might be "32M") - try a small value ("16M" or even "8M"). If we can get the damn thing started we can worry about its performance later. Now try to start the system - see if you get the same problem. OK - assuming that didn't work, the second thing I'm going to suggest is that you download the latest windows version from http://www.postgresql.org - we don't know precisely what's in your installation and the "official" one should work fine with this card program. Finally, if that doesn't work then I'll copy this thread onto the hackers list and see if they have any great insights. I'm afraid I'm not a Windows expert, but since we've ruled out your antivirus I suspect either a slight difference in service-packs applied to the two machines, or something strange with default permissions being applied to the postgres user account. The Windows permissions system is much more complex than a Unix-style system and it's not always obvious what permissions are causing a problem. The situation isn't helped by the fact that Windows' reported errors and the actual error aren't always that similar. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd