... child process was terminated by signal 1initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Programmi/PostgreSQL/8.1/data"
I worked around installing without running initdb and then manually runas /user:DOMAIN\postgres cmd initdb -D c:\programmi\postgresql\8.1\data ... start the service and now postgres is working thank you ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings