Re: Troubles in Initializing Postgres Database 8.2

Hi,

Good news! We've succesfully installed Postgres on Windows Embedded.
The trick was to include a Null Device Driver to the image.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Maarten

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Van: Magnus Hagander [mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net]
Verzonden: maandag 29 januari 2007 13:00
Aan: Maarten van der Heijden
Onderwerp: Re: [BUGS] Troubles in Initializing Postgres Database 8.2

It shouldn't be, but it has been my experience that windows can give the
weirdest errorcodes sometimes :D

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:47:44PM +0100, Maarten van der Heijden wrote:
> Using my test program with different user accounts (admin and lower account) indeed failed with an "access denied" error message (getlasterror code 5). Not sure if this is related to "file not found" (getlasterror code 2).
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Magnus Hagander [mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net]
> Verzonden: maandag 29 januari 2007 12:32
> Aan: Maarten van der Heijden
> Onderwerp: Re: [BUGS] Troubles in Initializing Postgres Database 8.2
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:55:02AM +0100, Maarten van der Heijden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After reviewing the shmem.c code I constructed a test program to see if Xp embedded supports shared memory. I've used the same functions as used in shmem.c. There seems to be no problem in creating/opening and accessing/reading shared memory in Xp embedded.
> >
> > Using process explorer I could also see InitDb creating the shared memory segment (PostgreSQL.1).
> >
> > If I understand correctly, InitDb should create a shared memory segment which Postgres can use to initialize the database cluster? And it looks like initdb fails there right?
>
> Eh, I have to say I'm not 100% on which order these things are done. ;)
>
> But - inteesting to notice that it worked when you ran it. Question: Did
> you use the same permissions/account? Remember that if you used an admin
> account, you did not use the same one, because initdb will re-exec
> itself with lower permissions. So be sure to try it with a non-admin
> service account. It could be permissions related.
>
>
> > Is there a way to have more debug output from the process? (initdb with debug option doesn't have enough debug info regarding the error)
>
> I think you may need to locate the line that emits it in the source and
> add more info around there yourself :-( this is definitly not something
> we've seen before.
>
> //Magnus
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