Re: initdb failure

Hi Jaime

The installer is being executed as Administrator
I have check to ensure that, it will fail otherwise before even starting to install PostgreSQL.

Thanks
Pankaj

-----Original Message-----
From: Jaime Casanova [mailto:jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:01 AM
To: Pankaj Mandal (pmandal)
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] initdb failure

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Pankaj Mandal (pmandal)
<pmandal(at)cisco(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
>
> I have been trying to install PostgreSQL-8.4 on Windows 2000 server and keep
> getting the following
>
>
> creating template1 database in
> C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/base/1 ... initdb:
> could not execute command
> ""C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/postgres.exe"
> --boot -x1 -F ": No error
>
>                 initdb: removing contents of data directory
> "C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/data"
>
>
>
> I have checked the archives but did not see any solution so far.
>
> The data directory does have inheritable permissions for user postgres to
> read, write, modify etc.
>
>

are you executing the installer with a privileged user?

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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
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