Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > For example, consider what happens when your files are on a roaming > profile. And yes, profiles can more or less randomly move between being > roaming and local-copy in my experience... And you really don't want > that for your database f

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:30 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> Holger Hoffstaette wrote: >>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:10:26 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: >>> I'm not sure which directory should we create $PGDATA -- "My Documents", "Application Data", "Local Se

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:30 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:10:26 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure which directory should we create $PGDATA -- "My Documents", >>> "Application Data", "Local Settings" or direct child of %USERPR

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > THE MORE hurting problem on Windows7 is the inability to start the > postgresql service. There must have been some changes to the service > framework / security > "security" which prevend the startup... Dave Page just posted a patch for that, so we'll hopefully have it

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > THE MORE hurting problem on Windows7 is the inability to start the > postgresql service. There must have been some changes to the service > framework / security > "security" which prevend the startup... I posted a patch for that to -h

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Holger, >>> 4.) it seems to be no longer "cool" to have your data below Program >>> Files / Program Files (x86) > That was never cool or good practice. Yes, we discussed that on pg-installer some time ago. But we were in good bad company, as Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange did similiar things.

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:10:26 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: > >> I'm not sure which directory should we create $PGDATA -- "My Documents", >> "Application Data", "Local Settings" or direct child of %USERPROFILE%, but >> anyway some of them would be better than "Program F

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-27 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:10:26 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: > Harald Armin Massa wrote: > >> 4.) it seems to be no longer "cool" to have your data below Program >> Files / Program Files (x86) That was never cool or good practice. > I'm not sure which directory should we create $PGDATA -- "My D

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-26 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > 4.) it seems to be no longer "cool" to have your data below Program > Files / Program Files (x86) > The default as of know is \ProgramData\ I think all of those directories are only for executable files and not good to store any data. Is it safe to create database cl

[GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

2009-01-24 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Hello, my first results of installation-attempts of PostgreSQL 8.3.5 from pginstaller on Windows 7 64bit: 1.) after getting up to "initialize database cluster", Dialog appears: "Secondary Logon" Service not running. Please start this service and retry Maybe some "net start seclogon" would be hel