Re: Installer problem report with interesting solution

On 08/04/2012 03:08 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Craig Ringer wrote on 04.08.2012 03:39:
>> Hi all
>>
>> On Stack Overflow I was following the efforts of a user who was
>> unable to install Pg.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11656410/postgresql-installation-issue#comment15679519_11656410
>>
>>
>> They've just come back to let me know they found a solution to the
>> issue, and it's one that might be worth knowing about, saying that
>> the following resolved their issue:
>>
>> http://www.geekscribes.net/blog/2009/04/22/postgresql-database-cluster-initialisation-failed-solution/
>>
>>
>> Basically, they had to install in a non-default location outside
>> Program Files.
>>
>> Odd.
>
> 8.3 would put the data directory right into the install directory if
> I'm not mistaken.
> It's not really surprising that this won't work.
>
> It should also work if installed into program files but then a
> different location for the
> data directory is chosen during installation. If I remember correctly
> the 8.3 installer
> didn't make that easy to find.
Yeah, but they were installing 8.4 and tried 9.1 with reportedly the
same problem. That's what I thought was odd.

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Craig Ringer