Eddie,
> It also seems to show a weakness in PostgreSQL's logging, in that (a) it > would help a lot if it just printed its error to stderr, and (b) the log > message it did send to the event log was of the form "directory not found" > rather than "permission denied". > problem for sending to stderr: there is no stderr for a service; so using the eventlog is the "thing to do" for services. And "permission denied" is the error PostgreSQL gets from the operating system when trying to access its datadirectory; Windows will (correctly!) not allow an non-permitted user to query for existence of things it has no access to. best wishes, Harald -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 no fx, no carrier pigeon - %s is too gigantic of an industry to bend to the whims of reality
