Hi Peter, The link you mention below does not say that Operating System user postgres, should not have Administrator privileges, It says user postgres may not have sufficient privileges and could fail to create the Data directory, in that case, create Data directory by root user and change ownership to postgres. This is not the case here, the Data directory does get created and the owner is postgres. It fails subsequently during initdb though. Also I have successfully tested the installation on more than half dozen machines and they are all NTFS file systems. Thanks Pankaj -----Original Message----- From: Jan-Peter Seifert [mailto:Jan-Peter.Seifert@xxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:45 PM To: Pankaj Mandal (pmandal) Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: initdb failure 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
