Re: "1-Click" installer problems

On 01-04-2010 12:39, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Nikhil G. Daddikar, 01.04.2010 08:04:
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>> In about 30 seconds I found the following unanswered threads relating to
>> installation on Windows Vista. If anybody is interested I can find more.
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> The problem with this kind of statistics is that you will only find
> people who complain, you'll never find people who do not complain
> because they have no problems. Actually that's true for all internet
> forums or mailing lists: you'll seldomly find people posting something
> like "Hey everything works fine, I had no problems".

I agree... but they are still unanswered. And what else can I do. I am
facing problems on multiple computers, my customers are facing problems
as well. NOBODY till date has managed to install 8.4 on Vista using the
1-click installer and EVERYBODY has managed to install the 8.3 installer
(from postgresql.org) on Vista. DOES THIS COUNT AS A VALID STATISTIC?
And yes, i have tried installing it in C:\Postgresql as well.
Interesting to note that 8.3 installer from postgresql.org installs
perfectly in 'C:\Program Files' even on Vista. No use blaming Windows
all the time. It is the installer that is buggy.

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> All the posts seem to share the same root cause: the data directory
> has been put into "c:\Program Files" but a regular user does not have
> write permissions on that directory. As the installer is usually run
> with Administrator rights, the directory can be created but the
> service (or initdb) runs under a normal user account that cannot write
> to that directory because.
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> I do not like the installer's suggestion to put the data directory
> into c:\Program Files either, I think this should default to %APPDATA%
> instead of %ProgramFile%. I bet half of the problems would go away if
> the installer refused to put the data directory into c:\Program Files.
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> Given the fact that Microsoft finally tries to enforce people not to
> work as Administrators makes this even more important.
>
> My suggestion is to try to use a different data directory when
> installing Postgres and make sure that the postgres service account is
> allowed to read and write that directory.
>
> Personally I switched to using the ZIP packages completely because it
> is so much easer (unzip, initdb, pg_ctl -register, done)
>
> Thomas
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