Re: Problems when initdb on WinXP with SP2.

Johnson Zhao wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use Postgresql 8.03/ 8.04 on windows xp with sp2, all have same problems.
>
> run the windows cmd by:
>
> runas /user:postgres cmd
>
> and run the initdb program like:
>
> initdb --locale=C --username=postgres -W -A md5 -E UNICODE -D ../data
>
> then it says:
>
> creating directory ../data/ ... ok
> creating directory ../data/global ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory ../data/base ... ok
> creating directory ../data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ....
>
> and the command window stayed there!

I have no idea whether this matters or not, but I got bit during an 8.1
install by permissions issues. The postgres user requires read/write
permissions for the data folder and below, but it also requires read
permissions all the way back to the root of the drive (including the
root directory).

The specific situation for us was that we were trying to install to
D:\PostgreSQL\Data, but the postgres user didn't have read permissions
on the root of D:\ (or D:\PostgreSQL).