Re: initdb failing for chinese locale on windows machine

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 14:25, Chetan Suttraway
> <chetan(dot)suttraway(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to install postgres 8.4.3.1 on windows machine which has
> > chinese locale.
> > The install wizard throws warning message and continues.
> > However the logs show that initdb failed and so the service was not
> started.
> >
> > Have tested this on windows 95 but I think this problem can be reproduced
> on
> > latest windows release.
>
> PostgreSQL is not supported on Windows 95 as a server, and has never
> been. Only under cygwin, in which case you should be using a
> completely different installer.
>
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This is reproducible on windows xp.

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