Re: BUG #8288: 9.3.0Beta2 - Windows Installer bug #7738 still open

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:44 PM, <tgauss(at)wolfsysteme(dot)de> wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 8288
> Logged by: Thomas Gauss
> Email address: tgauss(at)wolfsysteme(dot)de
> PostgreSQL version: Unsupported/Unknown
> Operating system: Windows 7 64bit
> Description:
>
> Having data directory on drive d:\database\data-9.3 it takes about 45
> minutes to initialise cluster. Most of the time icacls is run by the
> installer, seems like bug#7738 is still active in 9.3.0b2's installer.

iirc, we eventually came to the conclusion that in some (unknown)
circumstances, icacls will recursively examine ACLs, even though it's
not updating them. We're currently looking into alternative ways to
ensure the permissions needed to write to the data directory are
correct.

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