Thread: Some beta4 installation problems.
Hi, I had a few problems when installing beta4 and you might be able to bring some light into it. I first tryed to install Postgres as a service on windows XP (fully patched) but had to cancel the installation due to errors. I then installed Postgresql as a program (actually this suit me better then a service). I run under a restricted user account and I could not install using this account due to not having the right to save a dll into the windows directory. I then installed using an administrator account and that went well - I just had to change the access rights to allow my normal user account to read and write in the postgresql directories. The last issue I met was with the start database script, it fails and gives the error message: >pg_ctl.exe start -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\" postmaster starting postmaster: invalid argument: "<" Try "postmaster --help" for more information. But I can start postgresql by running: postmaster.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\" Otherwise this is looking very good. I just have to find a free C compiler under Windows to compile my functions. Thanks, Benoit
> Hi, > > I had a few problems when installing beta4 and you might be > able to bring some light into it. > I first tryed to install Postgres as a service on windows XP (fully > patched) but had to cancel the installation due to errors. I > then installed Postgresql as a program (actually this suit me > better then a service). > > I run under a restricted user account and I could not install > using this account due to not having the right to save a dll > into the windows directory. I then installed using an > administrator account and that went well - I just had to > change the access rights to allow my normal user account to > read and write in the postgresql directories. > > The last issue I met was with the start database script, it > fails and gives the error message: > > >pg_ctl.exe start -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\" > postmaster starting > postmaster: invalid argument: "<" Try "postmaster --help" for > more information. > > But I can start postgresql by running: > postmaster.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\" > > Otherwise this is looking very good. I just have to find a > free C compiler under Windows to compile my functions. This is a known issue in beta4, where pg_ctl sends an extra " on the commandline to the postmaster. It's fixed in cvs and will be fixed in the next beta. The workaround is to remove the trailing slash and just write: pg_ctl.exe start -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data" //Magnus