Hello and thank you for reading my post. My problem is that I do not manage to start a PostgreSQL cluster as a Windows service. The OS is WinXP. - I've created a PostgreSQL cluster "a_pgcluster" with the associated port 5433. - Running "cmd.exe" under Windows as "a_user", I can start and stop it manually in command line using the following commands: - The cluster data directory is "a_pgcluster". Its (filesystem) owner is "a_user" with this user having "full control" on it. - Now, I would like it to be run automatically at machine startup as a service. - So I registered the cluster using the following command: - When I go to "Control Panel" -> Administrative Tools" -> "Services" and try to start the service, I get the following message: - I also tried the following commands in command-line: Can you help me try to figure out what's wrong? Best regards. -- OS: WinXP Pro SP3 DBMS: PostgreSQL v.9.1 -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Starting-a-cluster-as-a-service-tp5712728.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general