Re: Problems when initdb on WinXP with SP2.

"Johnson Zhao" <tianqi1981@gmail.com> wrote
>
> run the windows cmd by:
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> runas /user:postgres cmd
>
> and run the initdb program like:
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> initdb --locale=C --username=postgres -W -A md5 -E UNICODE -D ../data
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> then it says:
>
> creating directory ../data/ ... ok
> creating directory ../data/global ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory ../data/base ... ok
> creating directory ../data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory ../data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections  ....
>
> and the command window stayed there!
>

I can't reproduce your problem. Did you set some odd permission to user
"postgres"? Let's simplify it first, is there any problem if you login to
windows as "postgres" first, then do your initdb?

Regards,
Qingqing