Re: [GENERAL] troubles with initdb

2011-06-01 Thread jlhgis
Great eyes! It was copied & pasted out of some running notes & screenshots of the process I was keeping in an OO file. You're a lot more "helpful" than it was :) Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this. Now, on to the next hurdle - getting pg_ctl to run as an automated service... >

Re: [GENERAL] troubles with initdb

2011-05-31 Thread jlhgis
>>The data directory in the initdb command is different >>from the one you mention above - is that the case or >>were you just abbreviating? Yes, I had intended them to be different. My D drive is a small internal hard drive where I install all my application software, but I wanted to put the data

[GENERAL] troubles with initdb

2011-05-31 Thread jlhgis
hi all I am trying to create a second instance of PostgreSQL (8.3) on a Windows 2003 server with initdb, but am running into an error message I can't seem to resolve. Here's what I've done so far: Created a new local account 'postgres_test' for the 2nd instance to run under. I stopped the first