are you using the same username that you use to start postgres???
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Abraham, Danny" <danny_abraham@bmc.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: [TLM] [GENERAL] pg_ctl start fails on Windows
The error message is "could not open PID file".
I can manually create the file "postmaster.pid", so the problem
Does not look like a permission problem.
Thanks
Danny
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