Hi there, this message is for information only - it took me some time to figure out what was going on.
I tried installing PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Windows 2003 Server. I did not let the installer create the DB space, but wanted to use initdb instead to tune locale settings. As I run "initdb ... d:\PostgreSQL\", I always got an error: creating directory d:\PostgreSQL\data ... could not create directory "d:\PostgresSQL\": File exists After checking permissions etc., searching the web and the archives and a lot of fiddling, I figured out that in fact the "postgres" user account did not have read permission for d:\ (I created d:\PostgresSQL and gave permissions but of course, this didn't help, because read permissions for d:\ were missing). This might be related to the a thread "Problem Installing on Windows 2000 Server" from December 2005. HTH, Tino. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
