It was far stupider than that. I had been playing around with a couple of different data clusters before doing a complete reinstall of PostgreSQL. I just realized I was trying to start a cluster that I was no longer using and the postgres account didn't have appropriate permissions for. It's one of those things where once you ask the question, you realize that the answer is implicit in the question. But a useful followup question is, how do I make this start itself when Windows starts? The service is set up to run as postgres and execute "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -w -N "pgsql-8.3" -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\" This *is* pointing to the right data cluster (which I'm able to start successfully from the command line), but it's not starting automatically (even though it's configured to) and when I try to start it manually within the Component Services Manager, it generates the following error: Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure. Thanks, Lee Hachadoorian PhD Student, Geography Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences CUNY Graduate Center On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Lee Hachadoorian > <lee.hachadoorian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Last week I set up Postgres 8.3 on a WindowsXP machine. Had it up and > > running and imported data. Now when I try to start the server (after > > a machine restart) I get the message: > > > > ******************************************************************************************** > > pg_ctl: another server might be running; trying to start server anyway > > PANIC: could not open control file "global/pg_control": Permission denied > > Or it could just be that you do already have another postmaster up and > running already. > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
