Re: Windows 2003 server installation issue

On 8/18/10 7:42 AM, Vikram Patil wrote:

Joshua,
    Thanks for reply. But I tried 8.4.4 and it still doesn't work with local administrator account on windows 2003 . I don't want to create additional "postgres" user to start service on windows rather I want to use my currently logged in user. User can be administrator or non-administrator.

See --serviceaccount and --servicepassword CLI options to the installer, you can provide any existing user with its corresponding password as the postgres service owner.

 

I am getting an "error code 5" in event viewer when I try to use administrator as service user.Before attempting that I used initdb to create 
Data directory with same user

Thanks & Regards,
Vikram        


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] 
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:32 AM
To: Vikram Patil
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Windows 2003 server installation issue

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 23:49 -0700, Vikram Patil wrote: 

Hello Folks,

  I am facing an issue starting postgresql using windows service when
my user belongs to Administrator group.

  I applied patch from following thread to 8.4.1 source code and it
seems to be working with every windows operating system except Windows
2003 .
   

There is a reason the community provides binary packages. The idea that
you are patching 8.4.1 is quite ridiculous. Upgrade to 8.4.4.


Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake