Re: 8.4 installer

David,

1st question: I assume it's better to put the
data directory anywhere but in program files. Is that right?

I had to uninstall, delete stuff and clean things
up and do another install because it was telling
me that initdb.exe was not a valid win32
application. Again I get an empty data directory.
I then ran this line in the command window:

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>initdb.exe -D
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\data
I decided to keep the data in program
files (the default directory because I thought
keeping the defaults would work better.

This time I got a bunch of messages saying it was
initializing and creating stuff, then it said it
was successful. It looked like it worked, but it
was the same thing. I didn't copy those messages because I thought it was good.

Again I ran this (this time moving the data
directory outside of program files.)

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>initdb.exe -D C:PostgresData
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "User".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_Canada.1252.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to WIN1252.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

creating directory C:\PostgresData ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 10
selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in
C:PostgresData/base/1 ... C:/Program Files/Postgr
eSQL/8.4/bin/postgres.exe cannot access the
server configuration file "C:/Progra
m
Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/C:PostgresData/postgresql.conf": No such file or dire
ctory
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing data directory "C:PostgresData"

At 02:12 PM 21/09/2009, you wrote:
>Christine,
>
>What happens if you run it from a command
>prompt? (Start -> Run -> "cmd")Â Can you please
>post the command line you're using and its output?
>
>Note that you may need to provide a full path to
>initdb if it isn't in a place covered by your
>PATH variable. Also, try giving a full path to
>the data directory for your -D argument. It might not be finding one of them.
>
>---
>David Spadea
>Spadea Enterprises, Inc
><http://www.spadea.net>http://www.spadea.net
>
>
>On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Christine
>Penner
><<mailto:christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com>christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com>
>wrote:
>I did that. I saw something flash and then
>nothing happened. I still have an empty data directory.
>Christine
>
>At 12:59 AM 19/09/2009, you wrote:
>>Christine,
>>Try running "initdb" to set up the data directory.
>>initdb -D /path/to/data
>>That will populate your pg_hba and postgres
>>config files in the directory you specify.
>>---
>>David Spadea
>>Spadea Enterprises, Inc
>><http://www.spadea.net>http://www.spadea.net
>>
>>On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Christine
>>Penner
>><<mailto:christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com>
>>christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I'm using Windows XP Pro.
>>I am trying to install Postgres 8.4. I had 8.3
>>installed. Because I didn't have any important
>>data, to make it easier I removed 8.3, the data
>>directory, removed the Postgres windows user
>>and removed all registry values I could find. I
>>also shut down my anti virus and anti spyware
>>software that was running (and restarted my computer).
>>When I run the postgres installer
>>(postgresql-8.4.0-1-windows.exe) I get an error
>>about the file postgresSQL.conf not being
>>found. When the installer finishes I have an
>>empty data directory. I also tried installing
>>the data directory in a place other than the
>>program files directory. I have done this a few
>>times now and I'm just not seeing what I'm
>>missing. When I originally installed Postgres
>>8.3 I didn't use the one click installer. Since
>>then I have upgraded to another 8.3.x without any issues.
>>Christine Penner
>>Ingenious Software
>>250-352-9495
>><mailto:christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com>christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com
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