Some beta4 installation problems.

[Benoit Vairelles <b(dot)vairelles(at)albourne(dot)com>]

Hi,

I had a few problems when installing beta4 and you might be able to 
bring some light into it.
I first tryed to install Postgres as a service on windows XP (fully 
patched) but had to cancel the installation due to errors. I then 
installed Postgresql as a program (actually this suit me better then a 
service).

I run under a restricted user account and I could not install using this 
account due to not having the right to save a dll into the windows 
directory. I then installed using an administrator account and that went 
well - I just had to change the access rights to allow my normal user 
account to read and write in the postgresql directories.

The last issue I met was with the start database script, it fails and 
gives the error message:

>pg_ctl.exe start -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\"
postmaster starting
postmaster: invalid argument: "<" Try "postmaster --help" for more 
information.

But I can start postgresql by running:
postmaster.exe  -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data\"

Otherwise this is looking very good. I just have to find a free C 
compiler under Windows to compile my functions.

Thanks,
Benoit