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From: "Tracey Osborne" <tracey@osborne.net.nz>
To: "Thomas Kellerer" <spam_eater@gmx.net>,
	"Lukasz Brodziak" <lukasz.brodziak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Postgres service won't start, doesn't log any errors
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:52:40 +1300
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I'm having the same problem - and have checked the application log and yes 
the problem seems to be that postgres user doesn't have permission to write 
postmaster.pid file.  What is the solution to this?

Regards
Tracey