> Hello, folks,
>
> I am trying to install pgsql8 on winxp. I tried first to install "as
> is" with pginstaller beta2-dev3, no luck, it froze, switched off
> Nod32, froze a little later, ran through the list of services,
> switched off anything that seemed to be a firewall, no luck.
>
> So I compiled beta3 with mingw, installed, and now initdb keeps
> telling me this:
>
> <listing>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Verzia 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>d:
> <snip/>
> D:\tmp\data>initdb
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgresql".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale
> Slovak_Slovakia.1250.
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory d:/tmp/data ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/global ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/base ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory d:/tmp/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in d:/tmp/data/base/1 ... FATAL: could
> not select a
> suitable default timezone
> DETAIL: It appears that your GMT time zone uses leap seconds.
> PostgreSQL does n
> ot support leap seconds.
> child process was terminated by signal 1
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "d:/tmp/data"
>
> D:\tmp\data>
>
> </listing>
>
> now, beta2 reported no problems with initdb, it just never finished
> the installation and even if I tell my computer I am located in
> London, UK, use Greenwich Mean Time, I still get this fatal error.
Hello!
Could you please run this with debugging enabled? You do this by passing "-d" to initdb.
The interesting output is the stuff that comes between the "creating template1 database" message and the FATAL error.
Did you restart the commandprompt you ran initdb in after changing the timezone?
//Magnus