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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: asif ali <asif_ali73@yahoo.com>
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--- Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> wrote:

> > Server Won't Start On a Copy of Its Own Data
> Folder
> >  
> > 1. Installed the latest 8.0.3 binary on a Windows
> XP Pro 
> > system as a service to be started on bootup. 
> > 2. Used psql just to verify that I can connect.
> > 3. Used Windows Control Panel.Administrative
> Tools.Services 
> > to stop the server cleanly.
> > 4. Made a copy of the PostgreSQL/8.0/data folder
> > 5. Renamed the installed folder as
> PostgreSQL/8.0/saved-data
> > 6. Renamed the copy of data as PostrgeSQL/8.0/data
> > 7. Used Windows Control Panel.Administrative
> Tools.Services 
> > to start the server
> > 8. The server fails to come up 
> >  
> > Windows comes back and tells me that the service
> started and 
> > stopped. The Windows 
> > EventLog show that the postgres server was sent a
> start 
> > control, entered the running state and 
> > then entered the stopped state. There was nothing
> new in the 
> > pg_log folder to provide
> > any clue.
> 
> This is very weird - it should normally log
> *something*. There is
> nothing from postgresql in the eventlog?
> 
> 
> > Based on what I've gleaned on reading some of the
> past mail 
> > archives, I thought that this should
> > work. Have I misunderstood something?
> 
> It should,m as long as they are on the same version.
> And it should
> absolutely log an error.
> 
> Can you try starting the database manually using
> pg_ctl (not as a
> service) and see if you get more errors then?
> Remember to start it from
> a runas:ed shell, so you run it as the same user.
> 
> //Magnus
> 
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