Thread: BUG #10623: Installation failure
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 10623 Logged by: Vince Kavanagh Email address: vince.kavanagh@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 9.3.4 Operating system: Windows 7 Description: Installation completed successfully with error message: "Failed to initialise the database cluster" install-postgresql.log ********************** initializing pg_authid ... ok setting password ... FATAL: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3 child process exited with exit code 1 initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/9.3/data" Called Die(Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb)... Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb FIX *** Remove _?£& characters from installation password. Subsequent installation succeeded.