Re: Regarding initdb & pg_ctl

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:55, Vikram Patil <vpatil(at)actuate(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks Magnus for help.
>
> Is there any way to start pg_ctl without creating postgres user? I am trying to use same logged in user to run initdb and start service. As per documentation it seems to be allowed after 8.3. We tried to use it the way I describe on Windows XP and it worked without any problem.

Certainly, that works fine.

> Our installer first copies compiled binaries and then try to run initdb as current user. If it worked then we register service with same user and password. Users are defined in Active directory on active directory server ,basically we are using domain\user format to log in and run installation.
> Once registration is finished, we need to start service.

That's a pretty standard thing, it pretty much works.

> I tried to run initdb with data directory path outside Program Files .It works fine But when data directory path is located inside program files, initdb fails.

That should work. Another possibility is that it breaks because you
have spaces in the path name, and are not quoting it properly. The
quoting rules on Windows can be very strange :-)

> As per your advice I tried process monitor, it shows that there are no failures. So we can assume it is a issue with permissions.

Can you see it opening postgres.exe? Or do you get a not foud error somewhere?

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