On 3/08/2011 7:20 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
On 2/08/2011 8:01 PM, Steve Boyd wrote:

"could not open process token: error code 5"

The service account is in the local administrators group and has full
control over the data directory.

AFAIK PostgreSQL service account should *NOT* be part of the local
administrators group.

That said, the fact that it fails so ungracefully is definitely a bug
that bears investigation.

An on-list follow-up:

Removing the Pg service account from local admins resolved Steve's problem.

Pg should really fail more gracefully and informatively - or not fail to launch at all - in this case. It involves Win32 API programming, though....

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