The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 3530 Logged by: Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1 Operating system: Windows XP Description: Can't start as service if sb created 'c:\program' file Details:
I've installed PostgreSQL in 'c:\program files'. Some buggy program created file named 'c:\program', and what? PostgreSQL doesn't start! This error is due to Windows's stupid rules of resolving executable names. You've added registry entry ImagePath=c:\program files\Postgre SQL\bin\pg_ctl.exe ... Now Windows tries to execute c:\program, if not found - c:\program files\Postgre, and so on, until reaches the end of string. pg_ctl.exe when registering the service should quote this name: ImagePath="c:\program files\Postgre SQL\bin\pg_ctl.exe". But even this doesn't solve the problem, pg_ctl.exe starts postgres.exe, and probably you haven't used quotations again in CreateProcess invocation. So there are at least two bugs with lack of "..." in pg_ctl.exe. If the server started not using net start, but manually (using postgres.exe -D "..."), everything works ok, so postgres.exe probably doesn't have this bug. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
