Re: BUG #6169: a non fatal error occured during cluster.... problem with environment variables

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:19 PM, ondro <balucha(at)horizon(dot)sk> wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      6169
> Logged by:          ondro
> Email address:      balucha(at)horizon(dot)sk
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4.8
> Operating system:   WindowsXP
> Description:        a non fatal error occured during cluster.... problem
> with environment variables
> Details:
>
> During instalation error occur "a non fatal error occured during cluster
> initialisation...." and after instalation postgresql not work.
>
> Problem is that postgresql instalation expect in the windows environment
> variables path "c:\windows\system32". If not set path c:\windows\system32 or
> doesn`t work instalation fail with this error.

Why on earth would the system32 directory not be in the path? That's
the *nix equivalent of not having /bin and /sbin in the path.

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