The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1337 Logged by: PJMODOS
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0 Beta Operating system: Windows 2000 Description: Problem running PostgreSQL as service, incl. fix Details: In 8.0 RC1, because of bug in -D parsing in pg_ctl I am unable to run postgres as service when I have space in data path - when i register it with pg_ctl register -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\data" and try to run it then it won't work and in event log I have this: pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA unset. I have found very simple solution, just added + 1 in one of xmallocs and it seems to work, diff follows: --- pg_ctl.c Sat Nov 27 19:51:06 2004 +++ pg_ctl_new.c Sun Dec 05 10:21:40 2004 @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ { case 'D': { - char *pgdata_D = xmalloc(strlen(optarg)); + char *pgdata_D = xmalloc(strlen(optarg) + 1); char *env_var = xmalloc(strlen(optarg) + 8); strcpy(pgdata_D, optarg); ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly