Re: BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

On May 22, 9:28 am, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On May 8, 9:11 am, Kevin Field <kevinjamesfi(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On May 4, 2:10 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
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> > > The installer is still looking for perl58.dll, whilst the server
> > > needs perl510.dll. I've committed a fix for that (and the other PLs
> > > which were similarly afflicted).
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> > > I've rebuilt the installer (using the existing binaries from the last
> > > build) and uploaded it tohttp://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/. Please
> > > give it a whirl.
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> > Thanks for the rebuild. I finally got to try it today, but it was the
> > same story (at least, without renaming folders and such): can't
> > install plperl, then can't even find the service running to try
> > plperlu; after the install, I start the service again and run my
> > script and at the point at which it would run pg_restore, that fails
> > and the service is no longer running.
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> The new 8.4-beta2 seems to be behaving the exact same way. :(

I tried again just now, renaming my Perl 5.8 directory before
installing so it wouldn't find it, but it still behaved the exact same
way. Then I tried running 'create language plperl' from pgAdmin3 and
all it said was '******** ERROR *********' and shut down the entire
PostgreSQL service.