Re: PostgreSQL Win32 GUI installer beta

Magnus Hagander wrote:

>The first beta release of the MSI based GUI installer for the native
>win32 port of postgresql has been uploaded to pgfoundry!
>
>While this is a beta version of the installer, please note that the
>actual postgresql version being installed is still a development
>snapshot! View the release notes for more details.
>
>  
>
Forgive me if I play the devil's advocate. 

I had some problems installing it on a clean win32 box.   The test 
computer had neither cygwin nor mingw installed (windows xp).  

The installation process worked as it should; however, the screen 
requiring the logon account for postgres does not give an entirely 
useful error.    I had created a limited account as a user would have 
been expected to do ( help screen or hint could be useful here).   I 
kept getting a user could not log in with sufficient rights error.   I 
would suggest telling the installer the account needs the "run as 
service" privilege.   The old "pg_ctl register ..." command adjusted the 
login account accordingly, but I see that has been removed.  Once, the 
program opens the command prompt to initdb the postgres.exe process dies 
continuously with no error message.   Eventually, I had to close the 
command prompt and cancel the installation process.



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