Problem with win32 installer for PG 8.0

I had this problem too, I am not sure why it happens.
I am just guessing but I think its because of XP sp2.
If you want to use the latest ms installer, at least at this point,
you must install sp2.
Anyway, what I did is something very funny. I opened the pg installer
many times and then opened the task manager and started randomly
closing msi processes and somehow the installation continues and
opens the next frame and you can continue the install.

Regards,
tzahi.

Hi,
I installed beta 2 a couple of months ago, and today I
installed RC 5 and it seems there is no way to tell the
installer where to actually install, so I could not re use my
data cluster from the beta 2(with out renaming the directory
to the same name as what the installer would install).

I am not sure it this is a limitation of the MSI installer or
it was just overlooked.

The releasenotes clearly state that you need to do a dump/reload if you
are upgrading from a version prior to beta5.

As for telling it where to install, please see the FAQ. It is certainly
possible, and always has been. Only the default has changed.

Also why do all the PG projects insist on using M$ installer
technology? A better choice would be Inno Setup at
http://www.jrsoftware.org. It's a ton easier to use and
would be a better choice than msi.

You are clearly not administering a large environment... In such an
environment, you generally do not prefer innosetup or any other
homebrewn setup. MSIs support for shared components, rollbacks,
uninstallations, plugin into management systems etc is a clear win
there.
(And I, and a lot of ppl I've spoken to, certainly prefer MSI by far for
my personal machine as well)

In what way would this be easier to use and a better choice than MSI?

//Magnus

If you o this, don't expect your installation to work later. There is a
reason for the safeguards in the system.

//Magnus

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Given that I'm using Inno Setup for the project I am doing, I have a
comment here. Inno Setup is easier to develop with than are any of the
"free" or inexpensive MSI installation tools I've looked at. However,
if someone wants to put the extra time/effort or $$$ into building an
MSI installation, the MSI will provide more in the way of integration
with enterprise management tools, which would be difficult if not
impossible to do in Inno Setup. My own project involves PostgreSQL as
well, for example, and I hope to wrap a silent install of PostgreSQL
into the installation, which overall will be built with Inno Setup.

Oh, and as for uninstalls and silent installations, Inno Setup also
provides that functionality automatically. It can wrap the
installation into a single EXE file, it can do disk spanning, custom
install types, compressed data in the install file, creation of
desktop/start menu shortcuts, registry entries, multilingual installs,
etc. -- it's actually quite powerful, and it's free.

Another advantage: you can only run one MSI installer at a time, but
Inno Setup does not have that limitation. To embed a silent install of
an MSI program into my installer, I couldn't very well use an MSI file
(even if I really wanted to), could I?

On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:03 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

Hi,
I installed beta 2 a couple of months ago, and today I
installed RC 5 and it seems there is no way to tell the
installer where to actually install, so I could not re use my
data cluster from the beta 2(with out renaming the directory
to the same name as what the installer would install).

I am not sure it this is a limitation of the MSI installer or
it was just overlooked.

The releasenotes clearly state that you need to do a dump/reload if you
are upgrading from a version prior to beta5.

As for telling it where to install, please see the FAQ. It is certainly
possible, and always has been. Only the default has changed.

Also why do all the PG projects insist on using M$ installer
technology? A better choice would be Inno Setup at
http://www.jrsoftware.org. It's a ton easier to use and
would be a better choice than msi.

You are clearly not administering a large environment... In such an
environment, you generally do not prefer innosetup or any other
homebrewn setup. MSIs support for shared components, rollbacks,
uninstallations, plugin into management systems etc is a clear win
there.
(And I, and a lot of ppl I've spoken to, certainly prefer MSI by far
for
my personal machine as well)

In what way would this be easier to use and a better choice than MSI?

//Magnus

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Oh, and as for uninstalls and silent installations, Inno
Setup also provides that functionality automatically. It can
wrap the installation into a single EXE file, it can do disk
spanning, custom install types, compressed data in the
install file, creation of desktop/start menu shortcuts,
registry entries, multilingual installs, etc. -- it's
actually quite powerful, and it's free.

I'm sure it provides this - otherwise, it'd be unusable ;-) But how well
does it deal with other installatio programs that stuff files all over
the place? MSI contains a central database of your installed files
(assuming ppl use MSI, of course). InnoSetup might have that for it's
own installs, but it can't very well have it for others.. And the trend
is that everybody moves to MSI (InstallShield and Wise both go with MSI
now, which is by far the majority of the market)

Another advantage: you can only run one MSI installer at a
time, but Inno Setup does not have that limitation. To embed
a silent install of an MSI program into my installer, I
couldn't very well use an MSI file (even if I really wanted
to), could I?

AFAIK, you can. This is exactly how we do the language wrapper - one MSI
launching another.

//Magnus

I am trying to do something similar with a silent install of postgres
embedded in another install. What tools are being used to generate the
Postgres MSI installer? is the source for the installer around? This is
the first time I have ever tried making an installer so any tips very
welcome. I am currently looking at using the Nullsoft installer maker
NSIS as its free and has a nice gui to get me started.

Thanks Jasper

Magnus Hagander wrote:

We're using the WiX toolset from http://wix.sf.net, along with MingW
from http://www.mingw.org.
You can find the complete source for the installer on the pgFoundry page
at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/

//Magnus