Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

> It's on my list to discuss it with Magnus when we meet in Italy
> tomorrow. The simple fix is to back out the change that broke it,
> which leaves us in our previous broken-but-less-severely state (which
> is what we did for the binary packages).

If you mean reverting the patch that Mangus mentioned, I tried that, and 
it did not solve the problem.  See:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-09/msg01517.php

So I'm guessing it is something else.

> 
>> This is in *URGENT* need of a fix.
> 
> I can't see us pushing a point release for this alone (I think I've
> seen two reports of people running into the problem when building from
> source themselves, and one was internal here in EDB), so the urgency
> is simply to ensure it's fixed before we do produce our next release
> imho.

Well - building your own Postgres 8.3 on Windows using MingW appears 
broken.  Not sure how many people fall into that category, but its seems 
like a fairly major issue.

Charlie