I think I've hit a bug here when upgrading my Windows installation from version 8.1.1 to 8.1.2 using the upgrade.bat file included in the installation kit. When it comes to the part of registering the service, it keeps on saying can't register because I don't have enough permission, I'm an admistrator in this box. 1. So I check my services, I remember I changed the account used to start the service to "postgresql" from "postgres". So I changed it back to postgres and try the upgrade again, this time it worked. (if only the error message could have been more specific, like hey, change the account name back to postgres or something) 2. After the upgrade, I tried starting the service from the Services msc. No go, I checked my task manager, it seems like the postgres.exe task(a few of them) is cycling through starting and stopping. I check the logs in my Event Viewer, a bunch of: FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01C30000): Invalid argument 3. I checked the logs in the PGDATA dir, I got a bunch of this 2006-01-14 13:17:43 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: background writer process (PID 9856) exited with exit code 0 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: background writer process (PID 9972) exited with exit code 0 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: background writer process (PID 9988) exited with exit code 0 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2006-01-14 13:17:44 LOG: background writer process (PID 10028) exited with exit code 0 4. Here's the interesting part, if I go start the command prompt in the Postgres program group, start the database with: runas /user:postgresql pg_ctl -D D:\PgData81 start It actually starts. Is there a way to fix the service way of starting the database? I even tried running the same command in the service from the command line and I'm getting the windows dialog box saying an internal error occurred in pg_ctl.exe. Regards, Jonel Rienton -- I know not english well, but I know 9 computer languages.
