My dev box was running 8.1rc1 and I thought it was time to put 8.1 on it. I downloaded the 8.1 binaries-only dist off of postgresql.org (bt version), did a binary swap on my server and nothing ran...it turns out all the binaries like initdb.exe, postgres.exe have a dll dependency on various pgAdmin dlls like comerr32.dll and several others. pgAdmin was not installed on my server so nothing worked. I copied the .dlls from the pgAdmin folder on my workstation and postgres starts up.
Normally I roll my own so this may or may not be an issue...but when did initdb.exe acquire a pgAdmin dependency? Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
