Re: New pginstaller beta

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> A new beta-release of the win32 gui installer has been uploaded to
> pgfoundry.
>
> Postgresql is the snapshot from 20040731, with the win32 versioning/icon
> patch added, as well as the initdb auth patch (in the patch queue).

On Win2K SP4 I am getting an error during initdb:

Failed to tun initdb: 1!
Please see the logfile in 'C:\Program
Files\PostgreSQL\7.5\tmp\initdb.log'.

That log file contains:

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

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/7.5/data ... ok
creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/7.5/data/global
... Access is denied.
initdb: failed
initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/7.5/data"
initdb: failed

I am running this while logged in on a domain account that has
both local and domain admin priviledges. I have created the user
"postgres" and granted it "Log in as a service" priviledges.
Permissions on the C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/7.5/data/ dir are
set by the installer in such a way that the postgres user has
Change, and the rest has nothing.

From the error it appears that initdb was running as 'me'
instead of 'postgres'. Is there a way to verify under which
account initdb was running?

Jochem