Re: win32 pgsql not installable

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> I know I'm going to go on some people's nerves, but it's necessary.
> 
> With the current "run-as-non-admin" restriction the windows installer 
> doesn't work, and it will probably be ridiculously difficult to make it 
> work unless this restriction is redesigned.
> 
> I don't see any point in restricting postgres.exe (i.e. the single user 
> non-communicating version) to non-superusers. Installations are usually 
> executed with admin privileges (non-admins won't be able to create 
> services), and currently it fails to initialize the cluster with that 
> d***d message. Consequently, it rolls back the complete installation 
> leaving me at point zero.
> 
> If I was an average win32 user testing pgsql, this would be the end of 
> my attempt to install it.

I added a non-admin user but said they could create serviced.  That go
the install started, but the initdb failed with no real error message.
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