Re: Postgres: Packaging & Server Startup

Hi,

Please ignore my previous mail. I had given data directory location
incorrectly.Anyways,even after giving the absolute path for exe location, i
get the same error message as before:

D:\pgsql\bin\pg_ctl.exe -U postgres -P <mypasswd> -w start -D D:\pgsql\data

*waiting for server to start...FATAL: postgres: could not locate matching
postgres executable*

Thanks !

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:31 PM, CM J <postgres(dot)newbie(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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 <dev(at)archonet(dot)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
>>
>
>