> Test platform = Win 2000 plus all service packs, hotfixes.
> No previous PostgreSQL ever installed on the machine before.
>
> 8.0.0 beta 5 installation executable from
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller
>
> Installed NOT AS A SERVICE, repeat NOT as a WinNT/2K service.
> Told installer to put installation in
>
> C:\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\*
>
> but almost everything went instead to
>
> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\*
>
> The installer script seems "hard wired" to use "Program
> Files" folder. This is a bug.
>
> The only files that were put into the specified folder were
>
> C:\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\bin\ecpg.exe
> C:\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\include\*.h (C header files)
> C:\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\lib\(*.dll | *.a) (dev stuff)
>
> While everything else went into
>
> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta5\*
This sounds like you changed the target path only of the "Development"
sub-feature, and not the "root" item in the feature tree. The installer
supports both setting on the "root" item to move the entire installation
or to set it on a single node to move just that mode.
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