Could still be a permission problem. Whatever NT account you are using
as the service account (usally called postgres) for the PostgreSQL
server is the one that needs to be able to create the postmaster.pid.
Make sure that account has full rights to the data folder.
Hope that helps,
Regina
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Abraham, Danny
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 9:38 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] pg_ctl start fails on Windows
The error message is "could not open PID file".
I can manually create the file "postmaster.pid", so the problem
Does not look like a permission problem.
Thanks
Danny
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