Re: Problem installing Postgres 8.4.1

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Christine Penner
<christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)com> wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 21/09/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> What error you get when you run initdb?? (Also what exact command you
>> run?)
>
> The first time I just double clicked on the file initdb.exe. Just now I
> tried to run it through the command prompt and go this, this is the same
> stuff that was in the log file in the temp directory after I ran the
> installer:
>
> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>initdb.exe -D C:\PostgreSQL\8.4\data
> 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".
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory C:/PostgreSQL/8.4/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create directory
> "C:/PostgreSQL":
> File exists
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/PostgreSQL/8.4/data"
>
> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>
>
> I deleted the PostgreSQL Directory that was there (empty) and tried again
> and now it tells me that initdb.exe is not a valid win32 application

It sort of sounds like you must've removed some component that
initdb.exe needed....

but I'm not a Windows guy, so just speculating.

...Robert