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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bernt Drange <badrange@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Regaining superuser access
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:03:26 -0400
Message-ID: <20080918170326.GH3868@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Bernt Drange escribió:

> After a lot of fiddling with being able to enter single user mode on a
> windows machine (I had to figure out how to run the command line as
> the correct user, then for some reason -D didn't work, but SET
> PGDATA=xxx worked), I finally managed to fix my problem.

Hmm, the -D thing not working should probably be studied -- perhaps
we're missing escaping something somewhere.  Does the PGDATA path
contain spaces or weird chars?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support



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