Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAD82E0038 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:43:17 -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 50733-05 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:43:14 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A442E0045 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:43:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so1044819ywt.73 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:43:13 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=6BqAXi7VcHeh2yBw9xeRMUdtnyOg73Ki92NBVKuxl7Q=; b=wAu+0+ld8iLDH9vANhSdBU6umPAtD0ztbLGaAwu9JU/kH3+JUVsiJ1kNH/Jd5+TIF0acVbPBohJazwd3HPGphxScy3JJlsXK7XypuThR4hQkfdmsnD+LT1cPKsiq+fek4XrFZcpxROfkUbjclFoIz/eZVAThDfu7X7iVSxG2fRk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=mlGcX1jamNZZ1x3AHu+tliXUog9Z7pw+FSk6mwFt/RqR/iR8jtx71zwuIjRq7WxnmWp7qO3lBGsYdIxAJXe3qe94TNWu9vfUON2rZt8TFRh2nkfiO+AeviJBfcMXnySanyeVYg71bkUSrNYZh7QTsdrlqIH/OY9P7jIWCQbr/hA= Received: by 10.150.205.13 with SMTP id c13mr8149913ybg.66.1208281393831; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.142.1 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:43:13 -0400 From: "Ezra Taylor" To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: unable to install postgresql 8.2 In-Reply-To: <396486430804151002u4bd81beeo4156bf444f9cb06f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1487_22856723.1208281393821" References: <396486430804151002u4bd81beeo4156bf444f9cb06f@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200804/152 X-Sequence-Number: 28916 ------=_Part_1487_22856723.1208281393821 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Richard: Actually, some systems have a user by the name of postgres already on the system. Can change the setting for the user postgres by adding a password,home directory and shell for the user postgres. Or Saji can delete the user and then recreate it. I'm assuming that Saji has root access to this box. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Richard Broersma < richard.broersma@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin > -- Ezra Taylor ------=_Part_1487_22856723.1208281393821 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Richard:
             Actually, some systems have a user by the name of postgres already on the system.  Can change the setting for the user postgres by adding a password,home directory and shell for the user postgres.  Or Saji can delete the user and then recreate it.  I'm assuming that Saji has root access to this box.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM, saji verghese
<verghese.saji@hotmail.com> 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.


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Richard Broersma Jr.

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