Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 1 Installer available for download

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksander Kmetec [mailto:aleksander.kmetec@intera.si]
> Sent: 10 August 2004 08:48
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org;
> pginstaller-devel@pgfoundry.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta
> 1 Installer available for download
>
>
> I came across theese two problems while testing the installer:
>
> 1. Installer lists some database encodings which are not supported.
> Selecting win1250, for example, causes initdb to exit and the
> installation is then rolled back.
>
> initdb.log says:
> initdb: "WIN1250" is not a valid server encoding name

OK, it would seem that some of the encodings listed in
src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c are not listed as supported on
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/multibyte.html (that
includes win1250). I have limited the list to exactly what's in the
documentation.

>
> 2. Uninstalling PG didn't remove the service. Instead, it
> just changed its startup type to "disabled".

I cannot repeat that here on XP, however I have seen cases where the SCM
simply disabled an uninstalled service and didn't actually remove it
until sometime later. Could this be what happened in your case?

Regards, Dave.