Eddie,
It also seems to show a weakness in PostgreSQL's logging, in that (a) it would help a lot if it just printed its error to stderr, and (b) the log message it did send to the event log was of the form "directory not found" rather than "permission denied".
problem for sending to stderr: there is no stderr for a service; so using the eventlog is the "thing to do" for services.
And "permission denied" is the error PostgreSQL gets from the operating system when trying to access its datadirectory; Windows will (correctly!) not allow an non-permitted user to query for existence of things it has no access to.
best wishes,
Harald
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