Re: Some beta4 installation problems.

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> 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.

This is a known issue in beta4, where pg_ctl sends an extra " on the
commandline to the postmaster. It's fixed in cvs and will be fixed in
the next beta. The workaround is to remove the trailing slash and just
write:
pg_ctl.exe start -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0.0-beta4\data"

//Magnus