This is almost certainly the "pid file does nto go away" issue. Manually remove the .pid file in the data directory, and start the service.

I beleive this bug is fixed in beta-2.

//Magnus

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Ämne: [BUGS] 8.0 beta service won't start



Hi,



We've been using Postgres for about a year. I recently installed the beta8.0 Windows version on my XP laptop. It worked fine for about a week, butnow the service will not start.



Here's the message I receive:









Any ideas?





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Magnus Hagander wrote:
I think we fixed that after beta2.

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Oh, that might be so.
Then let me rephrase - it's fixed in the MSI installers released after
beta-2, because we waited for a couple of specific fixes before we made
those (that's why they were aclled beta2-dev1 etc, and not plain beta-2)


//Magnus

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Thanks guy's - I'll try it.

Michael Hornick
Insurance Systems Inc.
mhornick (AT) insurancesystems (DOT) ca
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From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha (AT) sollentuna (DOT) net]
Sent: September 11, 2004 11:43 AM
To: Bruce Momjian
Cc: Mike Hornick; pgsql-bugs (AT) postgresql (DOT) org
Subject: SV: [BUGS] 8.0 beta service won't start

Oh, that might be so.
Then let me rephrase - it's fixed in the MSI installers released after
beta-2, because we waited for a couple of specific fixes before we made
those (that's why they were aclled beta2-dev1 etc, and not plain beta-2)


//Magnus

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