Re: initdb fails in win xp

Have you verified you have the permissions to execute in that dir?
What happens if you try executing postgres directly?

On 2-Dec-09, at 7:52, Bala senthil <bsenthil(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> Today i installed postgres 8.3.4-1 version in my windows XP machine.
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> Installation went of smoothly without any issue.
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> While i tried to create the database cluster using initdb command i
> got the following error.
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> C:\postgres\bin>initdb -d -D c:\postgres\data
> Running in debug mode.
> Running in debug mode.
> VERSION=8.3.4
> PGDATA=c:/postgres/data
> share_path=C:/postgres/share
> PGPATH=C:/postgres/bin
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=balas
> POSTGRES_BKI=C:/postgres/share/postgres.bki
> POSTGRES_DESCR=C:/postgres/share/postgres.description
> POSTGRES_SHDESCR=C:/postgres/share/postgres.shdescription
> POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/postgresql.conf.sample
> PG_HBA_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
> PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "balas".
> This user must also own the server process.
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United
> States.1252.
> The default database encoding has accordingly been set to WIN1252.
> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
> creating directory c:/postgres/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in c:/postgres/data/base/1 ... initdb:
> could not execute command ""C:/postgres/bin/postgres.exe" --boot
> -F -d 5": No error
> initdb: removing data directory "c:/postgres/data"
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> Note: Even in the reinstalled program i got this same issue.
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> Can someone help us in resolving this issue.
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> Thanks,
> Bala
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