Hi again, I'm running "PostgreSQL 9.1" under "Windows XP". I'm still trying to set a proper logging system for a PostgreSQL cluster "a_pg_cluster". In the cluster "postgresql.conf" configuration file, I uncommented "logging_connector = on". When I stopped + started the service, I could see a "pg_log" directory had been created with a log file inside. Now, I would like: 1) to store the cluster log files somewhere else say, for example: "C:\postgresql\logs\a_pg_cluster\" 2) to have several small log files instead of a big one and log rotation. Yet, when I set the "log_directory" parameter in the following way: "log_directory = 'C:\postgresql\logs\a_pg_cluster\'" and stop + start the service, it fails with always the same unusable message: "The a_pgcluster_srv service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." In the manual, one can read: "When logging_collector is enabled, this parameter determines the directory in which log files will be created. It can be specified as an absolute path, or relative to the cluster data directory. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line." So, what's wrong with it? I would be happy with the following configuration: logging_collector = on log_directory = "C:\postgresql\logs\a_pg_cluster\" log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log' log_rotation_size = 10MB log_min_messages = PANIC log_error_verbosity = VERBOSE except, it doesn't work... and I'm not sure about the levels "PANIC" and "VERBOSE". Can you help? Thank you and best regards. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Starting-a-cluster-as-a-service-tp5712728p5713888.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