On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Vorpal <vorpalswordsman@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> PostgreSQL was installed as part of other software.
> The data folder is a subfolder of D:\Program Files\
> Specifically:
> "D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -w -N
> "pgsql-8.3" -D "D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\"
>
> For various reasons I would like the data directory to be:
> G:\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\"
>
> I created this directory, and changed the line in the service startup,
> however the service threw an error on startup.
Almost... What's the exact error? I'm no windows guy but I'm
guessing we can figure it out from the error.