The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5222
Logged by: Nicolas urtizberea
Email address: nurtizberea@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.1-1
Operating system: Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy Pc`s SP3
Description: failed to run initdb: 1!
Details:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "SYSTEM".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United
States.1252.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... The system cannot find the file
specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
10
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... The system cannot find
the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
400kB/20000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data/base/1
... ok
initializing pg_authid ... The system cannot find the file specified.
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data"