PostgreSQL 8.0 - Windows Server 2008 R2 install - Service won't start I am trying to install postgreSQL 8.0 on a windows server 2008 R2 machine. After the installation, the service does not start. When I try to start it manually, I get a message saying that the service started and stopped automatically. I tried running the service on a postgres account and as a local system account (in the service properties).

I don't know if this is relevant, but during the installation, I got a few alert messages about "procedural languages" and "contrib files" being installed but not activated on the database.

Every log file in pg_log is empty.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Try uninstalling postgres, install this:


Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)


Reinstall postgres and see if it works then.