Hi Peter, First I create the user postgres using the createuser.exe script. After that I run the following scripts from postgres installer in the order listed below. In between I do have checks to make sure the previous commands returned 0 exit code and that database server did start successfully before trying to load modules etc. initcluster.vbs startupcfg.vbs createshortcuts.vbs startserver.vbs loadmodules.vbs This pretty much seems to work on about half a dozen other machines where I have tested it. Meaning the data directory gets initialized properly, Servers start properly and modules get loaded correctly and later I am able to create database and execute SQL as well. On this one machine (Windows 2000 server) I get this problem, which results in unsuccessful install. I also get another error message as posted in the forum http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-04/msg00097.php With all the installs but that does not seem to cause any problem to my application so far. Thanks Pankaj -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan-Peter Seifert Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 3:18 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: initdb failure Hello, > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by > user "Administrator". > This user must also own the server process. the user here should be postgres. Are you 'locally'/'directly' installing on the server machine? Good luck. Peter -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
