Subject: Re: Cannot start the PostgreSQL service
To: "Igal @ Lucee.org" <igal@lucee.org>, David Unsworth <dunswort@hotmail.com>
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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 12:40:25 -0800
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On 01/30/2016 12:33 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
> On 1/30/2016 12:10 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
>>
>> Did you check the Windows Event Viewer?  When a service fails to start
>> you should see the details there in the Application log errors.
> Sorry, I just realized that you had this:
>
>> 2016-01-25 18:45:19 GMTFATAL:  the database system is starting up
>> 2016-01-27 01:09:47 GMTFATAL: *role "SYSTEM" does not exist *
>> pg_ctl: PID file "C:/Program Files
>> (x86)/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
>
> So you are using PostgreSQL 8.4?  Not sure why you would do that on a
> development machine (assuming that you're not running production servers
> on Windows 7 Home)

 From a previous post by the OP:

"How did you install Postgres on this machine?
With Hold'em Manager software many years ago.  "

>
> Looks to me like the issue is that the service is running under the
> Local System account, which is not recognized by PostgreSQL, and that's
> why the log shows [role "SYSTEM" does not exist].  If you have installed
> using the installer then you should probably have a "postgres" account
> on the machine?  If so, set the service to Log On as that account.
>


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Adrian Klaver
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