Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres

2008-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21-Oct-08, at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's fairly hard to see how that mistake leads to that symptom. >> Can you poke a bit more into exactly what is happening? > when I executed postgres.exe directly it complained of the user having > admin privs

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres

2008-10-21 Thread Dave Cramer
On 21-Oct-08, at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows machine admin privileges. This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to postgres refusing to start with admin privileges

Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres

2008-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows > machine admin privileges. > This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to > postgres refusing to start with admin privileges. > The error message from pg_ctl st

[HACKERS] pg_ctl less than useful error message on windows when privileges wrong for postgres

2008-10-21 Thread Dave Cramer
I have a client who mistakenly gave the postgres user on a windows machine admin privileges. This mistake results in the service being unable to start up due to postgres refusing to start with admin privileges. The error message from pg_ctl start -D bindir is PG_CTL.."could not locate mat