Re: Postgres: Packaging & Server Startup

[CM J <postgres.newbie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

      I don't have multiple postgres installed.Anyway, tried your suggestion to use the full path name and here is what i get:

D:\pgsql\bin>D:\pgsql\bin\pg_

ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start -D:\pgsql\data

pg_ctl: could not open PID file ":/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid": Invalid argument

       There is no data directory created by default (i used no-installer-zip file to install postgres), so i went ahead and created a dummy data directory which gave the same result as above. Any suggestions ??

Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

CM J wrote:
> pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd>  -w start -D D:\pgsql\data
>
>         However, i get the following error message:
>
> waiting for server to start...FATAL:  postgres: could not locate matching
> postgres executable

That does seem to suggest it found the executable but it didn't match
versions with the data directory. Do you have two copies installed? If
so, you'll probably want to specify the complete path to pg_ctl

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 Richard Huxton
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