Hi Jaime The installer is being executed as Administrator I have check to ensure that, it will fail otherwise before even starting to install PostgreSQL. Thanks Pankaj -----Original Message----- From: Jaime Casanova [mailto:jcasanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:01 AM To: Pankaj Mandal (pmandal) Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: initdb failure On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Pankaj Mandal (pmandal) <pmandal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All > > > > I have been trying to install PostgreSQL-8.4 on Windows 2000 server and keep > getting the following > > > creating template1 database in > C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/base/1 ... initdb: > could not execute command > ""C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/postgres.exe" > --boot -x1 -F ": No error > > initdb: removing contents of data directory > "C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/data" > > > > I have checked the archives but did not see any solution so far. > > The data directory does have inheritable permissions for user postgres to > read, write, modify etc. > > are you executing the installer with a privileged user? -- Atentamente, Jaime Casanova Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas Guayaquil - Ecuador Cel. +59387171157 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
