On 21-Oct-08, at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows
machine admin privileges.
This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to
postgres refusing to start with admin privileges.
The error message from pg_ctl start -D bindir is PG_CTL.."could not
locate matching postgres executable"
It's fairly hard to see how that mistake leads to that symptom.
Can you poke a bit more into exactly what is happening?
find_my_exec returns -1 for a number of errors resulting in an error
message much like above (wording is slightly different).
when I executed postgres.exe directly it complained of the user having
admin privs
I removed admin privs from the pg user and pg_ctl worked fine.
I know it's not very specific, but fairly damning.
Dave
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