Re: win32 pgsql not installable

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> I know I'm going to go on some people's nerves, but it's necessary.
>
> With the current "run-as-non-admin" restriction the windows installer
> doesn't work, and it will probably be ridiculously difficult to make it
> work unless this restriction is redesigned.
>
> I don't see any point in restricting postgres.exe (i.e. the single user
> non-communicating version) to non-superusers. Installations are usually
> executed with admin privileges (non-admins won't be able to create
> services), and currently it fails to initialize the cluster with that
> d***d message. Consequently, it rolls back the complete installation
> leaving me at point zero.
>
> If I was an average win32 user testing pgsql, this would be the end of
> my attempt to install it.

I added a non-admin user but said they could create serviced. That go
the install started, but the initdb failed with no real error message.
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