Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138239FB641 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:54:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35317-01 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:53:52 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578A89FB4DF for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:53:52 -0400 (AST) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id k3so485209ugf for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:53:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=GiSfGLLddFY9UyffCiCwwF7Pu3i00hcFBvf4ZHCofT+XAtTUDOwWc6wHPvqEGfO6BEkSNAhmrOe4W0FVu5voj9mUNwMTUTBZq7RwYdHKZElBJn3lRpfooR3GHUQ8+1oO39S1VHz3xeXulQpW8R5bUta/SWjSvayDx1uRcBaDb+k= Received: by 10.82.165.1 with SMTP id n1mr1255625bue.1169744026782; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.151.11 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:53:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7775b64a0701250853n35888fc9wc6a99cedd7479d0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:53:41 -0500 From: "Neil Bibbins" To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org Subject: Windows 2K Installation difficulties... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_27318_20583177.1169744021620" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200701/92 X-Sequence-Number: 18294 ------=_Part_27318_20583177.1169744021620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello, I'm having difficulty installing PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows 2000. It gets most of the way through the installation and fails (I think) after trying to initialize the database. The log message is: The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data/base/1 ... Bad command or file name could not write to child process: Invalid argument Initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2.data I have removed all virus software, although I hope to reinstall it after installation. (Can PostgresSQL really not run as an application with virus protection installed? Ouch...) I have tried deselecting the initialization box and initializing afterward, but this also doesn't work. Possibly I'm using the wrong command, which is one that I found from a post from Magnus several years ago. I have installed Cygwin, but this also didn't help. Can anyone assist? I've done many forum searches but nothing seems to work. I don't think I'm attempting the impossible! Thanks for any insight. Much appreciated. ------=_Part_27318_20583177.1169744021620 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello,

I'm having difficulty installing PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows 2000.  It gets most of the way through the installation and fails (I think) after trying to initialize the database.  The log message is:

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 10
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data/base/1 ... Bad command or file name
could not write to child process: Invalid argument
Initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2.data

I have removed all virus software, although I hope to reinstall it after installation.  (Can PostgresSQL really not run as an application with virus protection installed? Ouch...)

I have tried deselecting the initialization box and initializing afterward, but this also doesn't work.  Possibly I'm using the wrong command, which is one that I found from a post from Magnus several years ago.

I have installed Cygwin, but this also didn't help.

Can anyone assist? I've done many forum searches but nothing seems to work.  I don't think I'm attempting the impossible!

Thanks for any insight.  Much appreciated.
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