On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Vishnu S. <vishnu.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On starting the server using pg_ctl command the following message is shown. > > > > server starting > > > > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>2010-09-30 14:36:07 ISTLOG: could not > create file "postmaster.opts": Permission denied. > Are you running pg_ctl from the postgres account? If not, this could be unrelated to the core issue. Typically to attempt manually pg_ctl start you runas a console into the postgres account. If the database starts w/o error from postgres account, my money is on user/password issue which is endless headache on windows pg servers (at least, they were for me when I was on windows). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
