Tom Lane wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > seahorse just failed again with one of the dreaded "permission denied" > > errors we seem to sporadically getting reported on the lists: > > seahorse is just a stock windows XP box (with all patches and > > servicepacks applied) and msys/mingw. > > There is no other software installed or ever was - maybe there is really > > an underlying issue that is causing those sporadic "permission denied" > > errors ? > > How repeatable is it? > > It would be interesting to know the actual underlying Windows error code > --- I see that win32error.c maps several different codes to EACCES.
It may be a good idea to put a elog(LOG) with the error code in the failure path of AllocateFile. This particular problem must be coming from FindMyDatabase (or maybe RebuildFlatFiles when called from PostgresMain?) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster