Re: How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

D.J. Heap wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Except the administrator account is disabled by default on Vista.
>>
> What do you mean?

Exactly what I wrote. By default, the .\Administrator account is
disabled on Vista so you cannot login to it, or runas it. It's easy to
re-enable from the Users and Groups MMC snapin of course.

> If you logon as an administrator then by default Vista drops a lot of
> priviledges, but you can get them back to execute a program that
> requires them by using the 'Run as administrator' right-click menu
> item (which is on the right-click menu for most things you can run,
> but not .msi's which is why you have to run them from an elevated
> command prompt).
>
> AFAIK, all the 'Run as administrator' menu item does is give you back
> your full admin rights if you are an admin (or else it will ask you
> for an admin user and password) and then run the program in that
> context.
>
> In any case, using an elevated command prompt has worked fine for me
> with the postgres 8.2.4 installer on 2 different Vista machines and
> has worked for other msi's that otherwise fail as well.
>
> Does it not work for you?

I'm not saying what you suggest won't work, only that you cannot do it
on an out-of-the-box install.

For the record, I've updated the installer for 8.3 to properly work with
UAC.

Regards, Dave.