"Jon Allen" <Jon.Allen@sas.com> writes:
> What shows up in the postmaster log?
> Here's the content of C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0\data\pg_log\postgresql-2005-03-23_000000.log:
> 2005-03-23 11:03:29 FATAL: password authentication failed for user "jon.allen"
> 2005-03-23 11:05:08 FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> 2005-03-23 11:24:05 FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
Drat, I was hoping there'd be more detail; some types of failures do log
more detail than they show to the user (for security reasons).
> The last 12 lines from the install log (let me know if you need to see the whole 3 Mb):
> === Logging stopped: 3/22/2005 15:47:39 ===
> MSI (c) (14:60): Note: 1: 1707
> MSI (c) (14:60): Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error
> MSI (c) (14:60): Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1707
> MSI (c) (14:60): Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error
> MSI (c) (14:60): Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1709
> MSI (c) (14:60): Product: PostgreSQL 8.0 -- Installation completed successfully.
Hm, no idea about that. Windows isn't my forte. I'd suggest reporting
this problem to pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org in hopes someone
there can help you out.
regards, tom lane