Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32
Date
Msg-id 200501261336.42174.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Postgres 8.0 on FAT32  (Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez<evazquez@insys-corp.com.mx>)
Responses Re: Postgres 8.0 on FAT32
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Eduardo,

> ¿Does anybody has installed Postgres 8.0 on Windows using the MSI
> Installer file that provides Postgresql Web Page using a FAT32 Partition?

Well, advice #1: Don't do this.  Use an NTFS partition.

> If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition
> (which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the
> database cluster manually by running initdb.exe
>
> How can I fix it?

That seems pretty clear to me.   Using FAT32 is a bad idea, if you want to do
it anyway, you'll have to run initdb.exe manually, from the command line.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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