Hi Kevin, I have checked this several times. The installer is executed by user Administrator (which apparently has all Administrator privileges) The user postgres is also being created and the data directory is owned by this user, which does have read, write, execute, modify, list folder contents and they are all inheritable. Here I am copying few more lines from the logs, upto when initdb failed. " Ensuring we can write to the data directory (using cacls): processed dir: C:\PROGRA~1\CISCOS~1\CSCONccm\objects\PostgreSQL\8.4\data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Administrator". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". fixing permissions on existing directory C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB creating configuration files ... ok 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" " Thank you Pankaj -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 7:27 AM To: Pankaj Mandal (pmandal); pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: initdb failure "Pankaj Mandal (pmandal)" <pmandal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > initdb: could not execute command > ""C:/PROGRA~1/CISCOS~1/CSCONccm/objects/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/ > postgres.exe" --boot -x1 -F ": No error I would check permissions related to the user and that postgres.exe file. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
