Re: installation problem with postgres password

From: Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: KOTa <kota(dot)alba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sachin Srivastava <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, raghu ram <raghuchennuru(at)gmail(dot)com>, rod(at)iol(dot)ie, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: installation problem with postgres password
Date: 2012-07-18 14:13:41
Message-ID: CAF-3MvOnT6oDmr_DeXHNsA4i=yE4w8K5OLrazOmO8fG2LuSgqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 18 July 2012 10:33, KOTa <kota(dot)alba(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> update. managed to run it via command prompt "postgres_install.exe
> --serviceaccount postgres"
> it did start. it still asks for a password, but because i could not
> create any password for this user and installation does not accept
> empty password, i am still stuck

Perhaps you can't create more than one account because it's Windows 7
Home Edition? It sounds like the type of limitation to expect on that
edition.

In that case, use your own account to run Postgres as, or install a
less limited OS.

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Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.

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