Re: Part way there, how do I complete it

On Apr 16, 1:35 pm, ray <Ray.Jos...@CDICorp.com> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 5:50 pm, ray <Ray.Jos...@CDICorp.com> wrote:> On Apr 15, 4:17 pm, ray <Ray.Jos...@CDICorp.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to re-installed PostgreSQL.  I have chosen a different
> process.  I am installing it as a service.  After much time at the
> 'Starting Services' window, it says that I have insufficient
> previleges to start services.  I am an administrator on the machine
> and I start and stop services.
>
> Any ideas what may be going wrong and what I might do to get them
> working?
>
> Ray


The method I used to resolve this was to:
1)  Use Control Panel to Remove the previous installation.  It left
behind the 'data' folder.
2)  Install with the msi file choosing not to install as a service.
3)  After installation was complete, the log stated:
 MSI (c) (38:10) [07:57:45:317]: Product: PostgreSQL 8.3 --
Installation completed successfully.
4)  I set the environment variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' to 'C:\pgHome
\8.3\lib'.
5)  Set the environment variable PGDATA to 'C:\pgHome\8.3\data'.
6)  Renamed the old 'data' folder to 'data_old'.
7)  From the command prompt, I executed 'initdb' with no parameters
allowing PGDATA to drive the location, which responded with:
  Success. You can now start the database server using: . . .
8)  Executed:  'pg_ctl -l firstlogfile.txt start' which produced a
logfile in the bin folder (from where the command was issued).
9)  Executed 'createdb' to produce a new database under my logon name.
10)  From pgAdmin3, the new server was visible.
11)  From pgAdmin3, I set 3 more connections which established 3
servers.
12)  From pgAdmin3, I dropped the original server setup from the
command line.
13)  Each server has 2 databases: postgres and myname.

Now, if I can just find out if these are persistant and useful . . .

Ray