"Stephan, Richard" <RStephan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Rebuilt the PostgreSQL server software because we were patching up from 9.0.4 to 9.0.8. Deployed software and received the following error when trying to restart server. > fgets failure: Error 0 > The program postgres is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the same directory as pg_ctl Is that a verbatim copy of the error message? When I try intentionally provoking this type of failure (by renaming the postgres executable out of the way), 9.0 pg_ctl gives me this: $ pg_ctl start The program "postgres" is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the same directory as "/home/tgl/version90/bin/pg_ctl". Check your installation. $ The lack of double quotes and the lack of a full path to the pg_ctl program make me wonder if you're running some really old copy of pg_ctl instead of the 9.0 version as intended. Anyway, if you didn't copy-and-paste exactly, what the error indicates is that pg_ctl tried to execute "postgres -V" and didn't get any output. What happens when you try that directly? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
