Re: initdb failure

Hi Peter,

First I create the user postgres using the createuser.exe script.
After that I run the following scripts from postgres installer in the
order listed below. In between I do have checks to make sure the
previous commands returned
0 exit code and that database server did start successfully before
trying to load modules etc.

initcluster.vbs
startupcfg.vbs
createshortcuts.vbs
startserver.vbs
loadmodules.vbs

This pretty much seems to work on about half a dozen other machines
where I have tested it. Meaning the data directory gets initialized
properly,
Servers start properly and modules get loaded correctly and later I am
able to create database and execute SQL as well.

On this one machine (Windows 2000 server) I get this problem, which
results in unsuccessful install.
I also get another error message as posted in the forum
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-04/msg00097.php
With all the installs but that does not seem to cause any problem to my
application so far.

Thanks
Pankaj

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jan-Peter Seifert
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 3:18 PM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] initdb failure

Hello,

> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by
> user "Administrator".
> This user must also own the server process.

the user here should be postgres.
Are you 'locally'/'directly' installing on the server machine?

Good luck.

Peter