Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Kellerer
John R Pierce, 18.07.2013 21:20: If you want to install a completely new instance, just put it into a different directory, and given the service a different name. Newer Postgres versions don't need a dedicated Windows user account any more. I usually don't use the installer any more, but

[GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread Arvind Singh
Hello and greetings, I want to install postgresql for use as the backend to a Windows application. This seems to be no problem if postgresql is NOT already installed on the system. which is not in this case. postgresql is already installed and unless the command line

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread raghu ram
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Arvind Singh arvin...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello and greetings, I want to install postgresql for use as the backend to a Windows application. This seems to be no problem if postgresql is NOT already installed on the system. which is not in this case.

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/18/2013 3:48 AM, raghu ram wrote: The password you need to reset is at the operating system level. To do this on Windows, do the following: 1) Right click on the 'My Computer' desktop icon ( or if the icon is not on the desktop, open the start menu and right click on the 'My

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:17:34 -0700 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: which will break the existing install Throw Windows away defenestrating the server Feed a dvd with last FreeBSD or Linux distro or Unix U Want. Restart. Install from dvd. Install Postgres and whatever you want the

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Arvind Singh wrote on 18.07.2013 12:22: I want to install postgresql for use as the backend to a Windows application. This seems to be no problem if postgresql is NOT already installed on the system. which is not in this case. postgresql is already installed and unless the command line

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/18/2013 11:48 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:17:34 -0700 John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: which will break the existing install Throw Windows away defenestrating the server Feed a dvd with last FreeBSD or Linux distro or Unix U Want. Restart. Install from

Re: [GENERAL] new instance of postgres on windows

2013-07-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/18/2013 12:03 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: If you want to install a completely new instance, just put it into a different directory, and given the service a different name. Newer Postgres versions don't need a dedicated Windows user account any more. I usually don't use the installer any