Re: How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

On 6/22/07, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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>
> Exactly what I wrote. By default, the .\Administrator account is
> disabled on Vista so you cannot login to it, or runas it. It's easy to
> re-enable from the Users and Groups MMC snapin of course.
>

Ah yes, but I don't recall doing anything special during Vista
installation and it still made my personal user an administrator so I
have never needed to use 'the' administrator account. Perhaps I told
it to make me an admin during installation, but I don't think so.

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> I'm not saying what you suggest won't work, only that you cannot do it
> on an out-of-the-box install.

That has not been my experience, but as I said above, perhaps I told
it to make me an admin during installation -- I don't recall for sure.

>
> For the record, I've updated the installer for 8.3 to properly work with
> UAC.

Great, thank you!

DJ