Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.3rc1 on vista

2008-01-28 Thread Niederland
Yes I checked the file permissions... In fact I logged in as the user specified in the service and started postgres via the command line with postgres -D ../data and the postgres.conf parameters were loaded as confirmed with a show all in psql And still running postgresql from the service does

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.3rc1 on vista

2008-01-20 Thread Niederland
This seems to be an installer bug for VISTA If I run postgres via the command prompt with: postgres -D ../data then the postgres.conf file is loaded as confirmed with a show all in psql If I start postgres via the service which is installed with installer the postgres.conf file values are not

[GENERAL] postgresql 8.3rc1 on vista

2008-01-20 Thread Niederland
On my laptop which I use for development (Windows VISTA), I tried Postgresql 8.3 RC1. I ran into one problem... It seems that either the service is not finding the postgresql.conf file or not paying attention to the search_path within it. This worked in all the previous 8.2.x, 8.1.x I've used.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.3rc1 on vista

2008-01-20 Thread Niederland
Here's more information: It appears that the postgresql.conf file is not being used... executing a show all; from psql I see that the parameters are using the default values and not paying attention to the settings in the postgresql.conf file. The config_file has a value of c:/program

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.3rc1 on vista

2008-01-20 Thread Andrei Kovalevski
Hello, The first thing which should be checked on Vista - correct file access permissions. Did you create postgres.conf yourself? Niederland wrote: This seems to be an installer bug for VISTA If I run postgres via the command prompt with: postgres -D ../data then the postgres.conf file is