Re: Postgres: Packaging & Server Startup

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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