On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Russell Hltn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>>
>> But still: I think it is a much better strategy to *not* put the data dir
>> into the program directory.
>>
>
> Microsoft abandoned that model after W95/98/(ME?). A new model came
>
Greg Smith writes:
> If you look at the forum post Thomas referenced, the errors all look like
> variations on this during initdb:
> creating directory C:/Archivos de programa/PostgreSQL/8.3/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting defau
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> I suspect if you are seeing multiple failures then it is likely a side
>> effect of a local security policy or similar. If you can supply an
>> installation log that would help diagnose the problem.
>
> I
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Dave Page wrote:
I suspect if you are seeing multiple failures then it is likely a side
effect of a local security policy or similar. If you can supply an
installation log that would help diagnose the problem.
If you look at the forum post Thomas referenced, the errors all
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>
> But still: I think it is a much better strategy to *not* put the data dir
> into the program directory.
>
Microsoft abandoned that model after W95/98/(ME?). A new model came
out in Win2000, but rarely followed. MS got out the big ruler
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> OK, that's good news, but then those failures need to have a different
> source. But interesting enough the problems were all caused by wrong
> permissions (just look at the thread I pointed to in dbforums).
Probably because on Windows the
Now when doing this on Windows this is *bound* to fail because the "Program
Files" are usually not writeable for non-admin users. The directory is
created during installation by the user running the installation (which is
usually an admin user). The PG service runs under a regular user account and
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been actively recommending Postgres in my company but had now three
> people coming back to me because they couldn't manage to install Postgres on
> Windows or MacOS.
>
> The common sympton is always that the installer (the PG
