> I uninstalled PostgreSQL from windows for the sake of > re-installing (for the sake of documenting an install for our > product on a clean machine), and now during re-install on the > Service Configuration screen I get "Invalid username > specified: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." > > Fine makes sense, I was using a new password for the postgres > user... so I went to my computer management and deleted the > postgres user, then rebooted, came back to install... but the > message is still there. Yes I can rename the user from > postgres to postgres2 or some such and things work fine, but > this isn't acceptable for me right now. > > Anyone know what else may need to be purged from the system > to allow a re-install with the same name/new password?
Nothing more should be needed, really. make sure it's actually gone - maybe windows did a rollback-on-reboot? :-) Possibly delete the user profile, but it shuoldn't have an efefct here. > And > what do the installer developers think about possibly > building that into the installer? Not likely. Way too dangerous, sicne the account may be used for other things on other machines. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
