PGSQL 8.0.1 Win 2K Installation Problem

"S.D." <sdownie@myway.com> writes:

I downloaded the native Windows 8.0.1 installer and sorted through the various Windows permissions problems by running the Installer as an admin but not creating a cluster. Then I log out and log back in as the limited "postgres" user and run initdb.exe from the command line. Initdb creates the data folder and everything seems to be going well until just after "initializing pg_depend ... ok". The next lines are:

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creating system views ... FATAL: unrecognized node type: 653

You seem to have a miscompiled backend. Where did you get the installer
from? Maybe a bad download?

regards, tom lane

Tom suggested:

You seem to have a miscompiled backend. Where did you get the
installer from? Maybe a bad download?

I snagged the non-Japanese version from:

http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/

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I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6 (Macintosh).

I then ran the installer on a "real" computer (Athlon 1900 running W2K) and the installation went as advertised.

So I've got to believe that there is some bug that results from the interaction of the PostGreSQL installer and the chip set emulated by Virtual PC 6. If I'm the first person to attempt to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 in that environment, then I guess this is a bug report. :-)

Thanks!

Scott

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just to let you know, i got the same error message when i tried it on
my win2k inistall emulated by Virtual PC 7.

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Software Developer, *nix Advocate
On Feb 19, 2005, at 1:14 PM, S.D. wrote:

I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site
but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried
to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6
(Macintosh).

I then ran the installer on a "real" computer (Athlon 1900 running
W2K) and the installation went as advertised.

So I've got to believe that there is some bug that results from the
interaction of the PostGreSQL installer and the chip set emulated by
Virtual PC 6. If I'm the first person to attempt to install PostGreSQL
8.0.1 in that environment, then I guess this is a bug report. :-)

Thanks!

Scott

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On Feb 19, 2005, at 2:14 PM, S.D. wrote:

I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site
but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried
to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6
(Macintosh).

Does Virtual PC 6 really emulate NTFS drives?

Just curious: why would you want to use Virtual PC/Windows rather than
native PostgreSQL on OS X?

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com> writes:

On Feb 19, 2005, at 2:14 PM, S.D. wrote:

I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site
but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried
to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6
(Macintosh).

Does Virtual PC 6 really emulate NTFS drives?

It emulates an IDE disk--the Microsoft NTFS driver runs on the virtual
machine and talks to the emulated disk.

Just curious: why would you want to use Virtual PC/Windows rather than
native PostgreSQL on OS X?

A very good question indeed. :)

-Doug

"S.D." <sdownie@myway.com> writes:

I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6 (Macintosh).

I then ran the installer on a "real" computer (Athlon 1900 running W2K) and the installation went as advertised.

So I've got to believe that there is some bug that results from the interaction of the PostGreSQL installer and the chip set emulated by Virtual PC 6. If I'm the first person to attempt to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 in that environment, then I guess this is a bug report. :-)

I think you're reporting to the wrong place ;-). If Virtual PC fails to
act like a real PC, it's not the fault of the application that exposed
the deficiency in their emulation.

regards, tom lane

I assume this is also VirtuaL PC on the mac, right? I've been using
VirtualPC on the PC for a lot of th dev work on the intaller, and it
should certaily work there..

Does this only occur with win2k, or does it also occur with
XP/2003/whatever?

In the end I doubt there is much we can do, it seems to be an issue of
Virtual PC not being close enough to a PC.

//Magnus

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I don't use PostgreSQL in Windows, I was just merely verifying that
this guy isn't the only one having this kind of problem, and yes this
is a Mac. I run my PostgreSQL db in Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X :-)

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Jonel Rienton
http://blogs.road14.com
Software Developer, *nix Advocate
On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:55 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

I assume this is also VirtuaL PC on the mac, right? I've been using
VirtualPC on the PC for a lot of th dev work on the intaller, and it
should certaily work there..

Does this only occur with win2k, or does it also occur with
XP/2003/whatever?

In the end I doubt there is much we can do, it seems to be an issue of
Virtual PC not being close enough to a PC.

//Magnus

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just to let you know, i got the same error message when i tried it on
my win2k inistall emulated by Virtual PC 7.

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Jonel Rienton
http://blogs.road14.com
Software Developer, *nix Advocate
On Feb 19, 2005, at 1:14 PM, S.D. wrote:

I downloaded the PostGreSQL Windows installer from another FTP site
but I still ended up with the same arcane error message when I tried
to install PostGreSQL 8.0.1 on W2K running inside Virtual PC 6
(Macintosh).

I then ran the installer on a "real" computer (Athlon 1900 running
W2K) and the installation went as advertised.

So I've got to believe that there is some bug that results from the
interaction of the PostGreSQL installer and the chip set emulated by
Virtual PC 6. If I'm the first person to attempt to install

PostGreSQL

8.0.1 in that environment, then I guess this is a bug report. :-)

Thanks!

Scott

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