Thread: windows 7 compatiblity?

Hi

I recently bought Windows 7 32 bit professional.
Unfortunately Postgresql 8.4.3 did not install or work.
I started searching Google and found that a lot of other people have the same problem.
Will there be a minor release to fix the problem?
Will it be fixed in the upcoming version 9.0?

Thanks

H.F.

Hello

2010/4/5 Heine Ferreira <heine.ferreira@gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> I recently bought Windows 7 32 bit professional.
> Unfortunately Postgresql 8.4.3 did not install or work.
> I started searching Google and found that a lot of other people have the
> same problem.
> Will there be a minor release to fix the problem?
> Will it be fixed in the upcoming version 9.0?

It can depend on win configuration maybe. Last week I did lectures on
Windows 7 with PostgreSQL. There was no problem.

regards
Pavel Stehule

>
> Thanks
>
> H.F.
>
>

Regards,

Frank Heikens wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I recently bought Windows 7 32 bit professional.
>> Unfortunately Postgresql 8.4.3 did not install or work.
>
> Tell us about your problems, error messages and logs, then we can help
> you to get it working.
>
>> I started searching Google and found that a lot of other people have
>> the same problem.
>
> Many others have it working, but that's normal and that's why they
> didn't post any message on a forum.
>
>> Will there be a minor release to fix the problem?
>
> What problem? Tell us about it!
>
>> Will it be fixed in the upcoming version 9.0?
>

I had a problem installing my software (which includes Postgresql) on a
Windows 7 demo laptop last week. It turned out that accounts that are
designated as administrator do not have enough privileges to install as
a service. Without wishing to go delving into the config tools and
wasting any more time I logged out and then back in using the
Administrator account that came with W7 (no password - security, what
security?), ran the setup again and everything worked fine. The services
were then available to all other accounts.
HTH, just my experience.
Garry

Garry Saddington wrote:
> I had a problem installing my software (which includes Postgresql) on
> a Windows 7 demo laptop last week. It turned out that accounts that
> are designated as administrator do not have enough privileges to
> install as a service. Without wishing to go delving into the config
> tools and wasting any more time I logged out and then back in using
> the Administrator account that came with W7 (no password - security,
> what security?), ran the setup again and everything worked fine. The
> services were then available to all other accounts.


quick and dirty way around that without logging out and back in...

right click the postgres installer, "Run as administrator..." and Yes to
the UAC popup that ensues, and after this it should install just fine.
Personally, I would make sure I specified a different directory for the
data  (its quite possible you *have* to as \program files\ is restricted
in win7)

John R Pierce wrote:
> Garry Saddington wrote:
>> I had a problem installing my software (which includes Postgresql) on
>> a Windows 7 demo laptop last week. It turned out that accounts that
>> are designated as administrator do not have enough privileges to
>> install as a service. Without wishing to go delving into the config
>> tools and wasting any more time I logged out and then back in using
>> the Administrator account that came with W7 (no password - security,
>> what security?), ran the setup again and everything worked fine. The
>> services were then available to all other accounts.
>
>
> quick and dirty way around that without logging out and back in...
>
> right click the postgres installer, "Run as administrator..." and Yes
> to the UAC popup that ensues, and after this it should install just
> fine.   Personally, I would make sure I specified a different
> directory for the data  (its quite possible you *have* to as \program
> files\ is restricted in win7)


k, you HAVE to change the default dir, I went and installed to
c:\postgresql\8.4   and its alive and running.

(ok, I'm on win7 64bit professional, but should be same difference).

On 4/5/10, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> Garry Saddington wrote:
>>> I had a problem installing my software (which includes Postgresql) on
>>> a Windows 7 demo laptop last week. It turned out that accounts that
>>> are designated as administrator do not have enough privileges to
>>> install as a service. Without wishing to go delving into the config
>>> tools and wasting any more time I logged out and then back in using
>>> the Administrator account that came with W7 (no password - security,
>>> what security?), ran the setup again and everything worked fine. The
>>> services were then available to all other accounts.
>>
>>
>> quick and dirty way around that without logging out and back in...
>>
>> right click the postgres installer, "Run as administrator..." and Yes
>> to the UAC popup that ensues, and after this it should install just
>> fine.   Personally, I would make sure I specified a different
>> directory for the data  (its quite possible you *have* to as \program
>> files\ is restricted in win7)
>
>
> k, you HAVE to change the default dir, I went and installed to
> c:\postgresql\8.4   and its alive and running.
>

if that were the case, there is no way the installer would have got
through even basic sanity testing, never mind the barrage of tests
every release does go through successfully.

Can we see the installation log please?


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