Waqar, > my windows event viewer says: > 2011-03-24 11:24:22 GMT FATAL: Âcould not create lock file "postmaster.pid": > Permission denied > is this helpfull? yes. that says that the windows-user your PostgreSQL Service is running as has no write priv on the data directory. Check your file systems permissions and allow writing to the data directory for the user your PostgreSQL service runs as. Best wishes HArald -- Harald Armin Massa  ÂÂwww.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL ÂTraining, Services Âand Support 2ndQuadrant Deutschland GmbH GF: Harald Armin Massa Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 736399 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
