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From: Chapman Flack <[email protected]>
To: Kartik Ohri <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Starting build-system work (Windows/Mac users please speak up)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:19:05 -0400
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On 06/06/20 08:40, Kartik Ohri wrote:
> The solution is to use *pg_ctl* to start the postgres server from a shell
> with appropriate permissions. Earlier, I was trying to start the postgres
> server using *net start *in CMD and *Start-Service* in PowerShell. Even
> with privileged shells, postgres created using these commands do not have
> the necessary rights to some directories (including the Java directory,
> hence, the libjvm location error). I was unable to figure out why this
> happens.

Interesting! There are a bunch of #ifdef WIN32 sections in pg_ctl.c [1],
maybe some useful info in there.

Regards,
-Chap


[1]
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c;hb=HEAD





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