From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of boca2608 Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:05 AM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GENERAL] Re: Cannot start Postgresql 9.3 as a service in Windows 2012 Server with a domain account Igor, Our network security policy requires that such database services run under a dedicated domain account. (Postgresql does run successfully under local system account and the default NETWORK SERVICE account.) Thanks, John I see. So, did you try to explicitly make this domain account member of local Users group? Regards, Igor