Hi, I don't have multiple postgres installed.Anyway, tried your suggestion to use the full path name and here is what i get:
D:\pgsql\bin>D:\pgsql\bin\pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start -D:\pgsql\data pg_ctl: could not open PID file ":/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid": Invalid argument There is no data directory created by default (i used no-installer-zip file to install postgres), so i went ahead and created a dummy data directory which gave the same result as above. Any suggestions ?? Thanks. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote: > CM J wrote: > > pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start -D D:\pgsql\data > > > > However, i get the following error message: > > > > waiting for server to start...FATAL: postgres: could not locate matching > > postgres executable > > That does seem to suggest it found the executable but it didn't match > versions with the data directory. Do you have two copies installed? If > so, you'll probably want to specify the complete path to pg_ctl > > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd >