Re: Installation on Windows XP Home
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
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Or use pginstaller that does it all for you, I think. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > Christophe CADIC schrieb: > > > Hello, > > > > In the current win32 release, it is necessary to create a specific > > user account to install database. > > On windows XP Home, it is not possible to create this type of account > > (Also Administrator or Limited User accounts are availables). > > > Hi Christophe, > > that's not true. > > here an example from my Setup (Created and tested on Windows XP-Home , > working on all Windows >=2000): > > ExecWait 'net user postgres $AdminPassw /Add' > WriteRegStr HKLM 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session > Manager\Environment\' 'PGDATA' '$INSTDIRPG/postgres/db' > ExecWait '$INSTDIRPG\postgres\editrights -u postgres -a SeServiceLogonRight' > ExecWait '$INSTDIRPG\postgres\runasp /domain:%COMPUTERNAME% > /user:postgres /password:$AdminPassw > /command:"$INSTDIRPG\postgres\bin\initdb -D $INSTDIRPG/postgres/db -L > $INSTDIRPG/postgres/share --locale=C" /wait' > > user add is windows - standard. > editrights is a cygwin exe. you only need to have this exe and > cygwin1.dll to run this exe > runasp is a commercial tool like runas that is able to handle user > passwords in a script (it will not prompt for a password like runas); i > don't like it but thats the only tool i found :-( > > see also > > http://www.hagander.net/pgsql/win32snap/ > > for details > > Daniel > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [email protected] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [email protected]