On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote: > OK, that's good news, but then those failures need to have a different > source. But interesting enough the problems were all caused by wrong > permissions (just look at the thread I pointed to in dbforums). Probably because on Windows they filesystem permissions have a million and one ways to be configured. >> If you can supply an installation log that would help diagnose the >> problem. > > I'll ask them, but I doubt I can get hold of them. > Where would the log be stored? /tmp on Mac, %TEMP% for the installing user on windows. >> Well, we intentionally don't do that in the one-click installers for >> precisely the reason you give above! > > You mean for security reasons? No, I mean for simplicity. > Hmm. But isn't that essential to a DBMS to be able to be contacted from the > outside? Not at all. Developer workstations, and even fairly busy websites might be confined to a single machine. I would wager that such installations might account for >50% of our installations. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
