Re: Help! "Access is Denied" Installation on WinXP rolled

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Abe Burnett <abe(dot)burnett(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help! "Access is Denied" Installation on WinXP rolled
Date: 2005-04-17 14:09:56
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.62.0504170708000.13574@hosting.commandprompt.com
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> log file it tells me to check before it deletes it in the rollback it says
> repeatedly something about "access is denied". Below is the actual install
> log (or a small portion of it, near the end where the error occurs). Any
> ideas?
> Regards, Abe
> p.s. this is a repost from my initial post on the novice list... which I've
> become aware is relatively inactive.

Did you check the initdb.log that was referenced in your Windows error
message?

I do not "know" this to be your issue but I am guess that you tried to
install PostgreSQL with Administrator (or as an Administrator) rights.

PostgreSQL must be installed as a non Administrative user on Windows.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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