--- On Thu, 11/15/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is the problem with the file? I looked at the pg_control file, postgres had the proper permission to it. > Why is it not accessible to Postgres? > My guess is that something (antivirus?) was messing with > the file when the system died. It seems that last night a windows service pack as added. I noticed that the global directory was marked as (grey-ed)read-only. I removed the read-only flag and postgres started up :-). I restarted my antivirus and postgres is still working. Is the global directory supposed to be marked read only? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster