Re: ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: could not initialize database directory

[...]
>If I run postmaster as a daemon from a cygwin telnet session, createdb works
>fine.
>If I run postmaster as a service (via the cygrunsrv), createdb return the
>error: "could not initialize database directory".
[...]

This means the user you login to the telnet session is different from the user that executes postmaster as a service
(usuallySYSTEM or LocalSystem, which, usually again :), is not provided with the rights to login), and/or the options
usedto start the postmaster as a daemon are different from those used to start it as a service. 

[...]
>Any hints ?
>
[...]

You must check the user context for the two cases, and make sure that you use the same command line options for
postmasterwhen started as a service, also the environment variables. 

SLao


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