Re: PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 Service Password Problem - WinXP Home

just delete the postgresql windows user created by the 8.0 setup and restart
the setup.

- thomas

btw: the service is called pgsql-8.0

----- Original Message -----
From: <operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "Afton & Ray Still" <rastill(at)shaw(dot)ca>; <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:40 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 Service Password Problem -
WinXP Home

> hi all,
>
> i think i'm stuck with alton and ray's problem - i
> stopped my install just after creating a database
> service and approving the auto-generated file.
>
> i went to copy down the password and stopped because,
> 1. there was a character (legal subparagraph character
> - straight line "s-curves" running its length and / or
> elongated ovals running perpendicular) that my
> keyboard didn't support and 2. i figured it was in the
> log file.
>
> i stoped because i wanted to delete all prior
> instances of my cygwin pgsql install to avoid any
> confusion on the part of the system or myself down the
> road.
>
> after i did the delete, i started getting concerned i
> might have set myself up for failure... the concern
> was warranted. ;-)
>
> i tried to install postgresql from scratch this
> morning. the log file from last night was over
> written with no notice to the user - so there's no
> record from last night anymore.
>
> i breifly checked the file last night for the password
> and i didn't see it - so maybe it isn't kept there,
> anyway.
>
> i check in services and there is no postgresql
> database server 8.0 listed.
>
> i do a search for "postgresql database server 8.0" in
> my registry and in my local drive and nothing comes
> up. i search postgresql - nadda.
>
> it has to be there because i can't install pgsql
> without that password.
>
> how is it stored? is it in zipped format and is that
> why my searches are missing it? is it in the
> registry?
>
> i need...
>
> 1. access to the password in order to install pgsql 8
>
> or,
>
> 2. access to delete the service so i can start all
> over again.
>
> or,
>
> 3. something i don't yet know i need. ;-)
>
> any advice w/b greatly appreciated.
>
> tia...
>
>
>
>
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