Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Pavel Stehule wrote: >> On 01/11/2007, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> When I try manually rebuild cluster I had second problem: >>>> C:\PostgreSQL\bin>initdb -D ../data >>>> The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the >>>> same directory as "C:\PostgreSQL\bin/initdb". >>>> Check your installation. >>> Do you have the same problem previously reported that "postgres -V" >>> doesn't work? If so, maybe taking out libxml2 will help? > >> No, it is different problem. It was my beginner mistake :(. I run >> initdb as Administrator. It needs maybe some hint message. With runas >> initdb works. > > IMHO we should check for an Administrator user and reject it > explicitely. The error message is way too obscure.
We used to do that, and got a lot more complaints then... Note that running initdb as administrator works in the vast majority of cases. It's only if you have some permissions that means you access a file only using the Administrators or PowerUsers group that it fails (because we drop those permissions) //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
