> Server Won't Start On a Copy of Its Own Data Folder > > 1. Installed the latest 8.0.3 binary on a Windows XP Pro > system as a service to be started on bootup. > 2. Used psql just to verify that I can connect. > 3. Used Windows Control Panel.Administrative Tools.Services > to stop the server cleanly. > 4. Made a copy of the PostgreSQL/8.0/data folder > 5. Renamed the installed folder as PostgreSQL/8.0/saved-data > 6. Renamed the copy of data as PostrgeSQL/8.0/data > 7. Used Windows Control Panel.Administrative Tools.Services > to start the server > 8. The server fails to come up > > Windows comes back and tells me that the service started and > stopped. The Windows > EventLog show that the postgres server was sent a start > control, entered the running state and > then entered the stopped state. There was nothing new in the > pg_log folder to provide > any clue. This is very weird - it should normally log *something*. There is nothing from postgresql in the eventlog? > Based on what I've gleaned on reading some of the past mail > archives, I thought that this should > work. Have I misunderstood something? It should,m as long as they are on the same version. And it should absolutely log an error. Can you try starting the database manually using pg_ctl (not as a service) and see if you get more errors then? Remember to start it from a runas:ed shell, so you run it as the same user. //Magnus
