Re: PostgreSQL under Cygwin problems

Shane,

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:43:35PM +1100, Shane Whitehead wrote:
> I don't know if you are the person to speak to, but since you wrote
> the document I'm following, I guess this a good place to start...

Actually, I would prefer that you post instead of sending private email.

> I've followed the instructions in your document v1.44 and for the most
> part seem to be successful, except for when I try to start the
> postmaster service.
>
> When ever I try to start the service it returns: cygrunsrv: Error
> starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
>
> I can get the standalone postmaster to run under the postgres user and interact
> with the template1 database, but I simply can't get the service to start??
>
> The ipc-daemon2 service is running...
>
> Any ideas???

IIRC, the above is usually caused by a permissions problem -- see Issue
#4 in the README.

The /var/log/postmaster.log or NT (Application) Event Log usually has
good hints to the root cause of these kinds of problems.

Jason

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