Re: 8.4 win32 shared memory patch

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 20:30, Kevin Field<kevinjamesfield(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > The event viewer says:
>> >
>> > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( PostgreSQL ) cannot
>> > be
>> > found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
>> > information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
>> > computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve
>> > this
>> > description; see Help and Support for details. The following
>> > information is part of the event: pg_ctl: could not find postgres
>> > program executable
>> >
>> > And yes, I renamed it correctly...
>>
>> Check permissions on it. If you moved it at some point, it may have
>> the wrong permissions. They should be the same as for the other .EXEs
>> in that directory.
>
> The two files (new and old exe) have identical permissions.

That's just weird. It could be that the postgres executable won't work
- maybe because of some DLL issue. Can you run "postgres -V" on the
executable, or does that give you some error?

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