Re: initdb fails in win xp - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Today i installed postgres 8.3.4-1 version in my windows XP machine.   Installation went of smoothly without any issue.   While i tried to create the database cluster using initdb command i got the following error.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\postgres\bin>initdb -d -D c:\postgres\data Running in debug mode. Running in debug mode. VERSION=8.3.4 PGDATA=c:/postgres/data share_path=C:/postgres/share PGPATH=C:/postgres/bin POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=balas POSTGRES_BKI=C:/postgres/share/postgres.bki POSTGRES_DESCR=C:/postgres/share/postgres.description POSTGRES_SHDESCR=C:/postgres/share/postgres.shdescription POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/postgresql.conf.sample PG_HBA_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/pg_hba.conf.sample PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=C:/postgres/share/pg_ident.conf.sample The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "balas". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to WIN1252. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". creating directory c:/postgres/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in c:/postgres/data/base/1 ... initdb: could not execute command ""C:/postgres/bin/postgres.exe" --boot  -F -d 5": No error initdb: removing data directory "c:/postgres/data"   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Note: Even in the reinstalled program i got this same issue.   Can someone help us in resolving this issue.   Thanks, Bala