On 11/06/2014 17:05, boca2608 wrote: > First, we have tried many suggestions found in this and other sites. But > the problem has not been solved. > > When trying to start postgresql as a service with a domain account on a > windows 2012 server, the service starts and stops immediately. The > Windows event log showed a terse error about timeout (even though it did > not really take more than a couple of seconds for it to fail). By the PostgreSQL's own logs should have some more detail - the event log entry is indeed terse, PG writes all the interesting stuff to its own log. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx