Thread: PostgresQL 8 beta 4 bugs

Hello, I have found two bugs relating to the Windows port, i.e
installing on Windows XP Professional.

1) Trying to install with finnish locale does not work, the service
starts but installation procedure halts in the end when trying to
install and activate "procedural languages" if I remember correctly. It
seems to be reproducable every time. I tried installing with the swedish
locale also which is very similar to the finnish, and that worked
without problems.

2) When installing the first time everything is OK. A Postgres account
is created. When un-installing and trying to install again, the postgres
accunt is already there, and the installation program cannot handle
that. Errors occur and instalation is impossible. Manually deleting the
postres account before reinstalling is a workaround, however the
installation program should be able to handle the postgres account
beeing there.

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Kristian

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>Hello, I have found two bugs relating to the Windows port, i.e=20
>installing on Windows XP Professional.
>
>1) Trying to install with finnish locale does not work, the service=20
>starts but installation procedure halts in the end when trying to=20
>install and activate "procedural languages" if I remember=20
>correctly. It=20
>seems to be reproducable every time. I tried installing with=20
>the swedish=20
>locale also which is very similar to the finnish, and that worked=20
>without problems.

Hmm. it installs just fine on my XP Pro (SP2) with Finnish locale.=20
What does the log show for these issues? (It's in the PGDATA directory, in =
the subdirectory pg_log)


>2) When installing the first time everything is OK. A Postgres account=20
>is created. When un-installing and trying to install again,=20
>the postgres=20
>accunt is already there, and the installation program cannot handle=20
>that. Errors occur and instalation is impossible. Manually=20
>deleting the=20
>postres account before reinstalling is a workaround, however the=20
>installation program should be able to handle the postgres account=20
>beeing there.

I do this all the time, and I've had zero problems with this. Just input th=
e same username and password and it shuold be picked up and used without an=
y problems.
What errors are you seeing exactly?

//Magnus

-----Original Message-----
From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
To: Kristian Jörg <krjg@devo.se>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:12:07 +0100
Subject: RE: [BUGS] PostgresQL 8 beta 4 bugs

> >Hello, I have found two bugs relating to the Windows port, i.e
> >installing on Windows XP Professional.
> >
> >1) Trying to install with finnish locale does not work, the service
> >starts but installation procedure halts in the end when trying to
> >install and activate "procedural languages" if I remember
> >correctly. It
> >seems to be reproducable every time. I tried installing with
> >the swedish
> >locale also which is very similar to the finnish, and that worked
> >without problems.
>
> Hmm. it installs just fine on my XP Pro (SP2) with Finnish locale.
> What does the log show for these issues? (It's in the PGDATA directory,
> in the subdirectory pg_log)

Hello Magnus!

I might have been wrong about this. I got finnish locale up and running on
another computer. It might have been something corresponding with the bug
below, that Harald explained could be due to the service process not being
stopped before trying to reinstall. I will look into both these matters
again.


>
> >2) When installing the first time everything is OK. A Postgres account
> >is created. When un-installing and trying to install again,
> >the postgres
> >accunt is already there, and the installation program cannot handle
> >that. Errors occur and instalation is impossible. Manually
> >deleting the
> >postres account before reinstalling is a workaround, however the
> >installation program should be able to handle the postgres account
> >beeing there.
>
> I do this all the time, and I've had zero problems with this. Just input
> the same username and password and it shuold be picked up and used
> without any problems.
> What errors are you seeing exactly?
>
> //Magnus