> I want to warn you all that you might hurt yourself by > banging your head against the wall or damage your karma by > using foul language if you find your postmaster rejecting to > work after a minor change in the postgresql.conf. (I changed > the listenig address to an IP instead of *.) Windows can't > start the service anymore but says the program (Postgres) > didn't issue an error message. > Postgres doesn't write a logfile either. Did you check the eventlog? It's supposed to write it there.. If it didn't, what version are you on? > Line 322 was the last one and was a comment. > So I suspected the lines before it which looked reasonably OK, too. > > After trying the sensible solutions I went via the improbaple > to the ridiculous and there it was. > My editor strips empty lines at the end of a textfile and > sets EOF right after the last visible character so it dumps > the CRLF of the last line and even though it was a comment > Postmaster complaines about a syntax error and goes on strike. > > This should be mentioned in the FAQ if it isn't already. Hmm. It isn't. And it probably should, yes - or the parser should be fixed to deal with it. Does this affect win32 only, or unix as well? Anybody know? //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster