Thread: vista failed to install postgresql

Excuse the top-post...

Normally it works fine, but we have recently seen cases like yours
which we've been unable to reproduce. Noone has tried their own build
yet though, so hopefully you may be able to help us figure it out.

Did you get the mingw build to initdb, or is that what failed? If so,
can you rebuild with debugging enabled, and try to figure out where it
exits? It may help to add a dummy atexit hook to break in and get a
backtrace from.

Thanks, Dave

On 5/28/09, douglas <douglasv@computerstuffnow.com> wrote:
> tried to install postgresql on vista ultimate, with uac turned off,( install
> user belongs to administrators group)
>
> tried the binary install and then the source install with mingw
>
> the binary , wouldn't start service, install ended then and there .
>
> the source with mingw gave me an error 2
>
> is there some someone who has done this successfully?
>
> How did they do it?
>


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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

douglas wrote:

> the binary , wouldn't start service, install ended then and there .

Did you check the event viewer to see what the service startup error was?

Did you look at the log file PostgreSQL created to see if there were any
errors produced?

Do you have a virus scanner installed? If so, which one?

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Craig Ringer