Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows
> machine admin privileges.
> This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to
> postgres refusing to start with admin privileges.
> The error message from pg_ctl start -D bindir is PG_CTL.."could not
> locate matching postgres executable"
It's fairly hard to see how that mistake leads to that symptom.
Can you poke a bit more into exactly what is happening?
regards, tom lane