Thread: New here: trouble getting postgres 9.3 running as service on windows 8.1

Malik Rumi escribió:

Hello list,

>  I overcame the first errors I got about the TEMP environmental variable
> thanks to the info on the wiki. Then I got two warnings after install. 1)
> is that the adminpack did not install, and it asked if I was listening on
> the port. 2) was that I needed to check the conf.

Do we have any insight on what might be going on here?

Malik, I think you should be more specific: what was it that you
installed?  Where did you download it from?  Do you see diagnostic
messages in the event log and/or Postgres' log file?


> A) *I don't know how I'll fix this yet, - that's why I'm here - but once I
> do, how do I install the admin? Do I run the install again?*
>
> * B) I googled and found some posts insisting that I install on C:\postgres
> so as to avoid the spaces in the Windows path. But I used a windows
> installer with Program Files as the default. Surely the installer took the
> space issue into consideration, didn't it?*
>
> * C) **"The postgres sql service started and then stopped. Some services
> stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs."
>  How am I supposed to get it in use by another program if I can't get it
> started?*
>
> * D) **I found several posts that say postgres needs the secondary logon
> service to be running. Mine was not. I set it to automatic and then started
> postgres again but I got the same 'started and stopped' error message. What
> do I do now to get this going?*
>
> *E) I have AVG Free, which the wiki says should not cause me any problems.*
>
> * F) **The second error just says see the conf file, and then I found out
> there is no conf file yet. So am I safe in assuming that once I do create
> that (and the error log) that logging and conf issues will not be a
> problem? *
>
>  thanks!


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