[GENERAL] PostgreSQL won't start

2008-03-12 Thread Lee Hachadoorian
Last week I set up Postgres 8.3 on a WindowsXP machine. Had it up and running and imported data. Now when I try to start the server (after a machine restart) I get the message: pg_ctl: another server

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL won't start

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Lee Hachadoorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week I set up Postgres 8.3 on a WindowsXP machine. Had it up and running and imported data. Now when I try to start the server (after a machine restart) I get the message:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL won't start

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Lee Hachadoorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week I set up Postgres 8.3 on a WindowsXP machine. Had it up and running and imported data. Now when I try to start the server (after a machine restart) I get the message:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL won't start

2008-03-12 Thread Lee Hachadoorian
It was far stupider than that. I had been playing around with a couple of different data clusters before doing a complete reinstall of PostgreSQL. I just realized I was trying to start a cluster that I was no longer using and the postgres account didn't have appropriate permissions for. It's

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL won't start

2008-03-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:22 -0400, Lee Hachadoorian wrote: It was far stupider than that. I had been playing around with a couple of different data clusters before doing a complete reinstall of PostgreSQL. I just realized I was trying to start a cluster that I was no longer using and the