Hello Pankaj, well - obviously initdb wasn't run by (the operating system's user) postgres. The owner of the server process (normally named postgres) mustn't have any administrator privileges: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/app-initdb.html Good luck. Maybe there wasn't any problem so far because the other PostgreSQL servers have been installed on non-NTFS file systems? Good luck, Peter Am 12.04.2010 07:25, schrieb Pankaj Mandal (pmandal): > 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
