Terry Yapt wrote:

I've a similar problem on one development PC, but another one upgraded fine.

I think the cause is due to the user that gets created to run the service.

On the PC with the problem, I have both 8.2 and 8.3 installed. 8.2 using the user account "postgres" and 8.3 using the user account
"postgres83".

To work around it, when the error message popped up, I left it there, and from
memory went through a process a bit like this: - went to services, - tried to start it using various user accounts, which failed, - went to my user accounts, - set postgres83's password to something I could remember, - accepted the huge warnings about no longer having access to stuff, - used that password in the service, - started the service, - that worked, - stopped the service, - closed the services window, - went back to the installer error message, - clicked retry, - which succeeded in starting the service, and completing the upgrade.

Regards, Stephen Denne.

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