Nope, the Postgres account is still in the "Users" group, I just changed the quota on that actual user account to have no limit. Nothing else about the account has changed.
From what I can tell, the first time postgres attempts to start, it just hangs and the postgres.exe process lingers around in memory. That's why I keep seeing these postmaster.pim files popup, and I can see several postgres.exe processes in memory as well. I think the first time, NT just times out trying to start the service. Then I go and try to start the service manually and get socket binding errors since the "hung" versions are still around.
I got this idea after running postgres.exe from the command line and it just hangs. I seriously think some of my DB data is corrupted. Most likely after creating a 1gig DB and running out of disk quota, something didn't get closed correctly or some file got corrupted and now the service won't start. However, since I can't get into the server I can't try to nuke the DB.
Can I manually remove data files to erase a DB? Basically I'm in a position where I need to keep my production DB and need to nuke my corrupted test DB. Thanks!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Mike Christensen" <imaudi@comcast.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:44:01 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres service fails to start on Windows 2003
Mike Christensen <imaudi@comcast.net> writes:
> I'm having problems getting the PostgreSQL service to start. This
> started happening after I changed a disk quota to allow for larger
> database sizes, and no other configuration has changed.
You moved the Postgres account to some other group, right?
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: No error
I'm betting this is actually some kind of permissions issue (with
Windows not being very helpful about letting PG know that). Is there
such a thing as "allowed to connect to the internet" in your account
settings?
regards, tom lane