On 11/19/2012 05:14 PM, Dave Page wrote:
check %COMSPEC% to see if it really
> points to cmd.exe .
Interesting - thanks for the info Craig. Sandeep; can you please look
into adding such a check to the installer. We already test the
VBscript interpreter, so this should go in the same place.
I've just seen a Stack Overflow report related to this that might be of interest. The user reports that the installer fails with:
" The environment variable COMPSPEC does not seem to point to the cmd.exe or there is a trailing semi colon present."
This appears to be a new message and they're using 9.2, so I'm guessing this was the test added. It doesn't appear to actually *mention the value of the COMSPEC environment variable* though. I've asked them for the installer log, but it'd be good to identify this in the message if possible.
The question of interest:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15287207/problems-installing-postgresql-9-2-- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services