Hi Farai,
I got the same experience too. The postgres service was run by a non-administrative user that was created by the installer.
I logged as an Administrator initially. I thought this was the source of the problem, then I tried to log as a non-administrative user,
but the problem still appeared. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it again and somehow it works.
Note: I don't have the same problem in Windows 2003 Server (Standard).
Armen Rizal
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I am running postgres 8 beta on XP. When I install the service starts and I can connect to the database. When I reboot the computer, the service won’t start. I get the message below.
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Services
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The PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0-beta1 service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service.
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OK
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Farai Mbira
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