Fwd: Re: PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 Service Password Problem - WinXP Home

This was meant for the group, too.

i think this is the password character that stumped me
last night...  §.  i did a search for it in the
registery and in on my local drive - nothing.

--- operationsengineer1@yahoo.com wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From:   <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0
> Service Password Problem - WinXP Home
> To: me@alternize.com, Afton & Ray Still
> <rastill@shaw.ca>,
>     pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
>
> thomas,
>
> there is no postgresql user that i can access in
> winxp
> home.  are you using winxp pro?  if so, maybe that
> accounts for the difference in being able to view
> these options.
>
> i search my registry and my local drive for
> pgsql-8.0
> - absolutely nothing.
>
> there is no user information displaying in computer
> administration or in user accounts.
>
> OE1
>
> --- me@alternize.com wrote:
>
> > just delete the postgresql windows user created by
> > the 8.0 setup and restart
> > the setup.
> >
> > - thomas
> >
> > btw: the service is called pgsql-8.0
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Afton & Ray Still" <rastill@shaw.ca>;
> > <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:40 PM
> > Subject: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0
> > Service Password Problem -
> > WinXP Home
> >
> >
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > i think i'm stuck with alton and ray's problem -
> i
> > > stopped my install just after creating a
> database
> > > service and approving the auto-generated file.
> > >
> > > i went to copy down the password and stopped
> > because,
> > > 1. there was a character (legal subparagraph
> > character
> > > - straight line "s-curves" running its length
> and
> > / or
> > > elongated ovals running perpendicular) that my
> > > keyboard didn't support and 2. i figured it was
> in
> > the
> > > log file.
> > >
> > > i stoped because i wanted to delete all prior
> > > instances of my cygwin pgsql install to avoid
> any
> > > confusion on the part of the system or myself
> down
> > the
> > > road.
> > >
> > > after i did the delete, i started getting
> > concerned i
> > > might have set myself up for failure...  the
> > concern
> > > was warranted.  ;-)
> > >
> > > i tried to install postgresql from scratch this
> > > morning.  the log file from last night was over
> > > written with no notice to the user - so there's
> no
> > > record from last night anymore.
> > >
> > > i breifly checked the file last night for the
> > password
> > > and i didn't see it - so maybe it isn't kept
> > there,
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > i check in services and there is no postgresql
> > > database server 8.0 listed.
> > >
> > > i do a search for "postgresql database server
> 8.0"
> > in
> > > my registry and in my local drive and nothing
> > comes
> > > up.  i search postgresql - nadda.
> > >
> > > it has to be there because i can't install pgsql
> > > without that password.
> > >
> > > how is it stored?  is it in zipped format and is
> > that
> > > why my searches are missing it?  is it in the
> > > registry?
> > >
> > > i need...
> > >
> > > 1. access to the password in order to install
> > pgsql 8
> > >
> > > or,
> > >
> > > 2. access to delete the service so i can start
> all
> > > over again.
> > >
> > > or,
> > >
> > > 3. something i don't yet know i need.  ;-)
> > >
> > > any advice w/b greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > tia...
>
>
>
>
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