On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:35 AM, KOTa <kota.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > that is what i though, but i tried many different combinations for > password, and at least 1 of them should satisfy policy requirements. > also my windows user password, which is accepted by OS and thus > satisfies the requirements resulted in same message > > i did try to see what policy is active, but i am using win 7 Home > Premium and i could find a way for this version to see/change > policies. > the only thing i found is by running "net accounts" from command > prompt. which shows the following: > > http://gyazo.com/be1089b5f0a1ebe6b8037ad9322eac31.png?1342061599 > > and those are very simple password policy which all combinations i used > satisfy >
Could you please try to reset the "postgres" user password in window7 before reinstalling the PostgreSQL. Below link gives more information of reseting password in windows7 <goog_788790081> http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-password-windows-7.htm Thanks & Regards, Raghu Ram EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog:http://raghurc.blogspot.in/