Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
>> Hi all !
>>
>> I am trying to install PostGreSQL 8.1.1 on my WinXP Pro.
>> I am using the latest installer from
>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.1.1/win32/.
>>
>> Here is my problem :
>> If I setup PostGreSQL to use the default data directory and my
>> language locale (French, Belgium) and UTF-8 encoding, everything
>> goes fine.
>> If I do the same but change the data directory, the installation
>> fails during initdb, and the initdb.log file contains :
Sorry all of you, it had nothing to do with locales...
The user postgres had no rights on the root of the drive, and that
was enough for the initdb to fail (even though he had all
necessary rights on the data directory).
Arnaud
