Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED
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Msg-id 937d27e10810140842v66f18fcbs3ccb942e6b152fd7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>
> Not quite. The reason it's in the global namespace is to provide an
> interlock preventing the starting of a postmaster in two different
> sessions at the same time against the same data directory. We need to
> figure out exactly how much this interlock is reduced, and if there is
> something else we can do to make it work on Vista+...

This isn't a Vista+ issue - it happens on XP as well.


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