Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A542E004E for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:02:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40503-02 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:02:49 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.190]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C035B2E004C for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:02:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i24so1122870rng.0 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ochFFWn0+noNZYN/yUdU24hLE6BJWtsIgwp6fED9pkw=; b=IGAvCwEA2w+M51XDkvjs1KwlX9Tfw3jpNVRdOFQjZktVwiyO9AY++MWxkGVt8Jygtpi7fqoZ3FO1soQ6/N8/olr9kCueObEHJvZlTOWze8XHAiw7rebDuQDIjwJU/NhfzQPyshNDwGDzk31m2/dRlhmdvlqGtt67SjTENg+nINc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kTe9UrDlQbaXh6xNbDaGsEMPnRjrIejFA85TSnSyYMivfB2eUwr1iX1T2vDMZtMDoNLdeaViosugYnMKwAnYLrG2jgzMAPXfv82gxkcAgmUT5f24nx0WsttxtbvIeigZ+tkVsQW9IgxT6lNyxkZx5pp0RrFFb4nvYfEtvosjCEI= Received: by 10.142.58.10 with SMTP id g10mr1452627wfa.278.1208278968319; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.144.1 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <396486430804151002u4bd81beeo4156bf444f9cb06f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:02:48 -0700 From: "Richard Broersma" To: "saji verghese" Subject: Re: unable to install postgresql 8.2 Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/151 X-Sequence-Number: 28915 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM, saji verghese wrote: > Iam getting "User 'postgres' could not be created.The user account already > exists.!" error while installing Postgresql version 8.2 in windows xp.There > is no user account named postgres created. This usually means that you've already installed postgresql once before. You will need to do one of two things: 1) remember the original password used to create the Postgres service account from the initial install. 2) delete the former Postgres service account and then retry the installation. to do step 2, follow this link: http://www.geocities.com/operationsengineer1/ open the PostgreSQL word doc, go to page 5 and follow the instructions on how to delete the OS user. -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.