[PostgreSQL-Admin] Postgres service starts and then stops immediatly

This sounds like permissions. Check and make sure that the "postgres"
user has the rights to write to the data directory, including the log files.

Has anything been changed lately? Restored/deleted/updated? System users
modified? Domain policy changed?

Check the Event Viewer for more information about the failure, see if
there's anything there.

What Windows version are you using?

Why PostgreSQL 8.3.7 when the latest release is 8.3.15? You're missing a
lot of bug fixes.

From: Sofer, Yuval
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Zucker, Yehudit
Subject: Postgres service starts and then stops immediatly

Hi,

-We are using Postgres 8.3.7 on Windows

-We cannot start the Postgres service. The windows OS error message is:
"The PostgreSQL Server 8.3 service on Local Computer started then
stopped.
Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for
example,
the Performance Logs and Alerts service."

-No logs in the postgres log file

-When using pg_ctl, the postgres.exe is starting OK

Please help,
Thanks,


Yuval Sofer
BMC Software
CTM&D Business Unit
DBA Team
972-52-4286-282
[email protected]


Yuval,

Using pg_ctl, did you try to start PG as a service?
e.g.:

C:/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl.exe runservice -N "PostgreSQL" -D
"C:/PostgreSQL/8.4/data" -w


Could it be that account used to start PG service doesn't have
privileges to "run as a service"?
Check in "Local Security Settings" under "Local Policies"/"User Rights
Assignments" - make sure that "Log on as a service" granted to the
account specified in PG service properties.

Regards,
Igor Neyman