I don't know but, maybe try a username with out spaces or punctuation in it?
- Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Irina Vorobeova [mailto:irisha@newmail.ru]
Sent: 30 November 2001 14:24
To: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
Subject: [CYGWIN] initdb failed
Hi!
I cannot initilize postgresql.
I have installed CYGWIN version 1.3.2 and cygipc version1.09-2.
Then I run:
ipc-daemon &
initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data
The listing is below.
Irina.
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This database system will be initialized with username "MaxGo & Iren".
This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process.
Creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data
Creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base
Creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global
Creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog
Creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1
DEBUG: database system was shut down at 2001-11-30 14:05:33
DEBUG: CheckPoint record at (0, 8)
DEBUG: Redo record at (0, 8); Undo record at (0, 8); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG: NextTransactionId: 514; NextOid: 16384
DEBUG: database system is in production state
Creating global relations in /usr/share/postgresql/data/global
DEBUG: database system was shut down at 2001-11-30 14:05:37
DEBUG: CheckPoint record at (0, 112)
DEBUG: Redo record at (0, 112); Undo record at (0, 0); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG: NextTransactionId: 514; NextOid: 17199
DEBUG: database system is in production state
Initializing pg_shadow.
initdb failed.
Removing /usr/share/postgresql/data.
Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.694901.
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