Re: Windows Vista Support

Dave Page wrote:
> michael(dot)alexander(at)impowerproject(dot)com wrote:
>> Can you confirm that you don't provide support for Windows Vista for any
>> release of Postgres. I'm dumbfounded an it appears that you don't
>> support Vista. If so, are you planning any releases. I have a major
>> project and was hoping to use Postgres.
>
> PostgreSQL will run on Vista, however to run the installer you will have
> to temporarily disable User Account Control.
>
> This is because the current stable version of PostgreSQL was released
> some time before Vista so obviously couldn't be properly tested with it.
>
> The installer for PostgreSQL 8.3 has already been rewritten as required
> to support Vista.

I've not tried Postgres on Vista yet - I run it on Linux, however I have found
most Windows XP software that won't run by default on vista will do provided you
mark the executable to run in XP compatible mode - you don't have to turn off
'User Account Control'.

Worth trying : right mouse click on the Postgres installer, select the
'compatibility' tab and then Windows XP (Service Pack 2) from the drop down.

Pete
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>
> Regards, Dave
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