Thread: Initdb Fail installing PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 4
When installing PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 4 on my windows xp professional machine (with SP2 installed) The logfile contains the following and the installer rolls back. -----------------Logfile------------------------- The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/global ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_xlog ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_clog ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_subtrans ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/base ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/base/1 ... ok creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_tblspc ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 1000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/base/1 ... initdb: failed initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data" --------------------------------------------------- I then tried all other 8.0 beta versions and get the same error. I also tried to install it on a Windows 2000 server (with SP4) and the same error happens. I initilize the installation under the Administrator account. I have the system service set to run under the postgres account and I made this account a member of the Users group. Any ideas what's causing this or how I can get this installed?