On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:57 PM, William <whair...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello Pqsql-hacker,
This isn't a question for -hackers. Please use the general list in future. > I have tried everything and ask many but cannot get my Installation of your > PostgreSQL 8.4.1.1 to install. I following all the steps exactly but I > cannot get theĀ PostgresSQL to install on my Windows Server 2003 Datacenter > Edition SP2. Is there a problem in installing the PostgreSQL on this version > of Windows which is Hosted at a Host Provider. That depends if the hosting provider has setup things oddly in any way. It should certainly work on a standard installation of 2K3 Datacenter. Unfortunately you've fallen over a weird issue with one of the Microsoft tools that crops up very occasionally, and we've yet to find the cause (or even be able to recreate it) :-(. The pertinent part of the log is this: ---- Granting service account access to the data directory (using cacls): processed dir: D:\APPS\PostgreSQL\8.4\data The data is invalid. Failed to grant service account access to the data directory (D:\APPS\PostgreSQL\8.4\data) ---- Notice the rather unhelpful 'The data is invalid' error, returned by cacls.exe. My first suggestion would be to run a disk check (no need for a sector scan) on your D drive. If the problem is being caused by a damaged ACL on a parent directory, that should clean it up. If that doesn't work, please send the output from the following commands: cacls D:\APPS\PostgreSQL\8.4\data cacls D:\APPS\PostgreSQL\8.4 cacls D:\APPS\PostgreSQL cacls D:\APPS cacls D:\ -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PG East Conference: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers