I did run filemon but did not get anything from it :( Yes I disabled all anti-virus software, no difference made.
Have raised a helpdesk ticket with Microsoft, see if they can shed any light on the problem. James -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2006 14:14 To: Hughes, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Initdb on Windows 2003 > All > > I have determined what is causing the failure. It appears that the > stdout & stderr redirection to nul produces the "Access is Denied." > message. This is happening even if I type "dir >nul" at the command > prompt! I assume that this re-direction in PostgreSQL is done when > starting postgres.exe as to allow the communction between the two > processes? > > I know this is not the correct place to ask my next question but maybe > there is a Windows expert out there :o) Does anyone have any idea how > Windows controls access to devices such as nul,comN, lpt1, etc? Or > what security setting governs this? > > Thanks all for your help. Wow, that's really interesting. Never heard of that one before. Can you run filemon and/or regmon from sysinternals.com, and see exactly what object it gets access denied on? Oh, and did you try this without antivirus/antispyware/personalfirewall as I beleive someone suggested? Same result, or different but still broken? //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
