Re: Start service

[Nick Ivanov <nick.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd check if there is already "postmaster.pid" in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\data, left over from a previous abend.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 2:40 PM Brad White <b55white@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to start a v15 service on a Windows 2012 R2 server where it hasn't been used for a while.

The service is set to run as pgUser.

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If I sub 'start' for 'runservice' and try to start it from CLI, I get

     C:\Users\administrator>"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\bin\pg_ctl.exe" start
 -N "postgresql-x64-15" -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\data" -w 
     waiting for server to start....2023-09-22 12:48:05.438 CDT [4796] FATAL:  could
not create lock file "postmaster.pid": Permission denied

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