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From: Jan Karremans <karremans.ja@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't install Postgres version 18
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:12:52 +0200
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Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>,
 pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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To: Nicolai <nm280192@gmail.com>
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I would simply recommend not to run Postgres on Windows. You are mixing two d=
istinctly different approaches to IT-systems. In that sense Linux is so much=
 more akin to the world Postgres lives in.

Cheers,
Jan

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

> Op 13 jun 2026 om 23:23 heeft Nicolai <nm280192@gmail.com> het volgende ge=
schreven:
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> =EF=BB=BFHi
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> I did not use the edb to remove it, I used the installer file and then sel=
ect remove. After that I delete the whole folder under c:/program file. Then=
 a restart of the pc.
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> I have tried repair many times
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> Hilsen
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> Nicolai Friis
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>>> Den 12. jun. 2026 kl. 16.27 skrev Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.c=
om>:
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>>> =EF=BB=BFOn 6/12/26 5:07 AM, Nicolai Madsen wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> I had installed Postgres version 18 earlier on my PC, but I want to star=
t over, and remove all of the DB's I have made. I couldn't figure out how to=
 do that, so I googled and was told that I should uninstall postgres, stop t=
he service in the task manager, and then delete the folder under C:/Program =
Files. AFter that I should restart the PC, and everything should be gone, an=
d ready to be reinstalled. I did that, but each time I am trying to reinstal=
l it, then it doesn't make any folders under Program Files, so the service c=
an't be started. It just give me this warning
>>> image.png
>>> If I try to reinstall it again, it tells me that it is already installed=
, and asks me if I want to make a change, repair, or uninstallation. I have t=
ried to choose that it should install the docs also, and then it creates the=
 folder under program files, but it only contains the docs nothing else.
>>> I have tried to restart the PC, reinstall it and tried google how to sol=
ve this but no solution yet.
>>> I hope you could guide me the right way.
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>> 1) Assuming you are using the EDB  installer did you follow the instructi=
ons here?:
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>> https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/supported-open-source/postgresql/uninst=
alling/
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>> 2) Did you try the repair option on the reinstall?
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>>> --
>>> Hilsen
>>> Nicolai Friis Madsen
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>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
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