Hi Peter, The scripts are executed by user Administrator on this specific machine which has all the privileges that postgres user has (note postgres user account is also created) I also checked that the data directory and it contents are owned by user postgres and user postgres's permissions are inheritable. 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
