Thread: Binaries readme change needed

Hi all,
Magnus, please change in readme:
8. To register the postgresql service, type *pg_ctl register -U postgres
-P passwd*. This will install the PostgreSQL service. You may now close
down the postgres user's command window.
to:
8. To register the postgresql service, start new cmd window as
administrator(or any with admin privileges)  user. Type *pg_ctl register
-U postgres -P passwd*. This will install the PostgreSQL service. You
may now close down the postgres user's command window.
- "normal" user can't registry services ....

Best regards
Rony

Updated, thanks.

//Magnus

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ronald Kuczek [mailto:kuczek@kuczek.pl]
>Sent: den 17 juli 2004 00:16
>To: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
>Subject: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Binaries readme change needed
>
>
>Hi all,
>Magnus, please change in readme:
>8. To register the postgresql service, type *pg_ctl register
>-U postgres
>-P passwd*. This will install the PostgreSQL service. You may
>now close
>down the postgres user's command window.
>to:
>8. To register the postgresql service, start new cmd window as
>administrator(or any with admin privileges)  user. Type
>*pg_ctl register
>-U postgres -P passwd*. This will install the PostgreSQL service. You
>may now close down the postgres user's command window.
>- "normal" user can't registry services ....
>
>Best regards
>Rony
>
>
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Użytkownik Magnus Hagander napisał:

>Updated, thanks.
>
>//Magnus
>
>
>
Probably this "normal user" has no PGDATA environment variable. I had
created postgres user and never login as postgres ;-)
(in readme you wrote only : "Create a user called postgres or use an
existing user. That user should have the 'log on as a service' right but
must not have Administrator rights. The postgres user should have a
password." - you have to suppose - a "normal" windows user will create a
new account and will never login and set environment variables for this
new user)
Maybe instruction "pg_ctl register -U postgres -P passwd -D
"your_pgdatapath_withslashes_insteadof_backslahes" "
in readme would be better ?

Best regards
Rony