Обсуждение: Windows 2K Installation difficulties...

Hello,

I'm having difficulty installing PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows 2000.  It gets most of the way through the installation and fails (I think) after trying to initialize the database.  The log message is:

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 10
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data/base/1 ... Bad command or file name
could not write to child process: Invalid argument
Initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.2.data

I have removed all virus software, although I hope to reinstall it after installation.  (Can PostgresSQL really not run as an application with virus protection installed? Ouch...)
I have tried deselecting the initialization box and initializing afterward, but this also doesn't work.  Possibly I'm using the wrong command, which is one that I found from a post from Magnus several years ago.

I have installed Cygwin, but this also didn't help.

Can anyone assist? I've done many forum searches but nothing seems to work.  I don't think I'm attempting the impossible!

Thanks for any insight.  Much appreciated.

Neil Bibbins wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having difficulty installing PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows 2000.  It
> gets most of the way through the installation and fails (I think)
> after trying to initialize the database.  The log message is:
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data/base/1 ... Bad command or file name
> could not write to child process: Invalid argument
> Initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.2.data
>
> I have removed all virus software, although I hope to reinstall it
> after installation.  (Can PostgresSQL really not run as an application
> with virus protection installed? Ouch...)
>
> I have tried deselecting the initialization box and initializing
> afterward, but this also doesn't work.  Possibly I'm using the wrong
> command, which is one that I found from a post from Magnus several
> years ago.
>
> I have installed Cygwin, but this also didn't help.
>
> Can anyone assist? I've done many forum searches but nothing seems to
> work.  I don't think I'm attempting the impossible!
>
> Thanks for any insight.  Much appreciated.
I am running on XP, 2k and 2k3 with various different VirusScanners
without seeing issues (Symantec, AVG) Though 8.1.X not 8.2
Might you be hitting some permissions error on the folder/drive?
Are you logged on remotely (RDP?) or directly on the machine?

Oisin