Dejan wrote on 24.05.2009 01:19:
> Computer which hosted a database crashed, but I managed to save "data"
> folder. I copied it to another computer and pointed postgres to that folder
> (stopping the service first). But, the service cannot start. Progress bar
> just goes for awhile, and then a pop-up tells me that the service stopped.
>
> I found in Services that command for starting the service is this
>
> "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -w -N
> "pgsql-8.2" -D "f:\PostgreSQL\data\"
Hmm, the command to start a service in Windows is "net start serviceName", so
that should be:
net start "pgsql-8.2"
in your case.