On Apr 16, 1:35 pm, ray <ray.jos...@cdicorp.com> wrote: > On Apr 15, 5:50 pm, ray <ray.jos...@cdicorp.com> wrote:> On Apr 15, 4:17 pm, > ray <ray.jos...@cdicorp.com> wrote: > > I am trying to re-installed PostgreSQL. I have chosen a different > process. I am installing it as a service. After much time at the > 'Starting Services' window, it says that I have insufficient > previleges to start services. I am an administrator on the machine > and I start and stop services. > > Any ideas what may be going wrong and what I might do to get them > working? > > Ray
The method I used to resolve this was to: 1) Use Control Panel to Remove the previous installation. It left behind the 'data' folder. 2) Install with the msi file choosing not to install as a service. 3) After installation was complete, the log stated: MSI (c) (38:10) [07:57:45:317]: Product: PostgreSQL 8.3 -- Installation completed successfully. 4) I set the environment variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' to 'C:\pgHome \8.3\lib'. 5) Set the environment variable PGDATA to 'C:\pgHome\8.3\data'. 6) Renamed the old 'data' folder to 'data_old'. 7) From the command prompt, I executed 'initdb' with no parameters allowing PGDATA to drive the location, which responded with: Success. You can now start the database server using: . . . 8) Executed: 'pg_ctl -l firstlogfile.txt start' which produced a logfile in the bin folder (from where the command was issued). 9) Executed 'createdb' to produce a new database under my logon name. 10) From pgAdmin3, the new server was visible. 11) From pgAdmin3, I set 3 more connections which established 3 servers. 12) From pgAdmin3, I dropped the original server setup from the command line. 13) Each server has 2 databases: postgres and myname. Now, if I can just find out if these are persistant and useful . . . Ray -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
