Re: Postgres 9.3 service no longer starts on Windows 8.1

2021-01-26 Thread Ron
Obligatory "you need to upgrade!!!" comment: both Postgres 9.3 and Windows 8.1 are far beyond EOL. (Don't think I'm being high and mighty, since I still must maintain Pg 9.2 and SQL Server 2005, 2008, & 2008R2 servers...) On 1/26/21 8:51 PM, Lisa Ruby wrote: Don't know why this so often happ

Re: Postgres 9.3 service no longer starts on Windows 8.1

2021-01-26 Thread Lisa Ruby
Don't know why this so often happens, but it does. I'll look for hours for a solution to a problem, finally give up and ask for help, and then find a solution. I just solved my problem. I started looking at permissions on the database location folders. Saw that NETWORK SERVICE had full security

Postgres 9.3 service no longer starts on Windows 8.1

2021-01-26 Thread Lisa Ruby
I am using Postgres 9.3 on a Windows 8.1 computer. I've been using it for over 5 years on the same computer to provide a database for a local JIRA Server. I did a normal restart of my computer last night and ever since then the Postgres service fails to start. I am able to start Postgres from t