The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 10623
Logged by: Vince Kavanagh
Email address: vince.kavanagh@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.4
Operating system: Windows 7
Description:
Installation completed successfully with error message: "Failed to
initialise the database cluster"
install-postgresql.log
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initializing pg_authid ... ok
setting password ... FATAL: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8":
0xa3
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/9.3/data"
Called Die(Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb)...
Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb
FIX
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Remove _?£& characters from installation password. Subsequent installation
succeeded.