are you using the same username that you use to start postgres??? M-- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abraham, Danny" <danny_abraham@xxxxxxx> To: <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 9:37 AM Subject: pg_ctl start fails on Windows The error message is "could not open PID file". I can manually create the file "postmaster.pid", so the problem Does not look like a permission problem. Thanks Danny ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings