Does your password have apostrophes in it? I think there is an issue with ' and possibly spaces as well in passwords that is on our todo to fix. One work around is change your pg_hba.conf temporarily to trust for localhost, reload or restart the service and then change it back to md5 when you are done installing. Aside from that only thing I can think of is you are not installing on the one you think you are. This happens if you have multiple installations of PostgreSQL on different ports with different postgres super user passwords. Hope that helps, Regina http://www.postgis.us
_____ From: postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Russell Mercer Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:20 PM To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net Subject: [postgis-users] PostGIS Installation error using Stackbuilder I am trying to install PostGIS on Postgresql 9.1 using the Stackbuilder program. Postgresql 9.1 was installed using the 1 click installer from EnterpriseDB. Postgres installed completely, so I initiated the install for PostGIS. I selected PostGIS 2.0, entered my password for the "postgres" user at the prompt and started the install. The install made it almost to the end, and failed with the following error: createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" I was concerned that I entered the wrong password at the prompt, so I opened up pgAdmin III to test. I was able to log in using the "postgres" user name and the password with no issues. I then tried to install PostGIS 1.5.3, with the same password fail result. Can anyone give me some insight into what I am doing wrong? I am installing onto a server with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. Thanks, Russell
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