Windows Vista Support

michael.alexander@impowerproject.com wrote:

Can you confirm that you don't provide support for Windows Vista for any
release of Postgres. I'm dumbfounded an it appears that you don't
support Vista. If so, are you planning any releases. I have a major
project and was hoping to use Postgres.

Michael Alexander
Impower

I've got PG running on a few Vista machines at this stage without problems.

The main thing you need to look out for is disabling User Account
Control for the installation process, otherwise the install will fail.

This is done through Control Panel -> User Accounts.

Once the install is completed you can re-enable it without issue.

Regards,

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Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
AutoLedgers

michael.alexander@impowerproject.com wrote:

Can you confirm that you don't provide support for Windows Vista for any
release of Postgres. I'm dumbfounded an it appears that you don't
support Vista. If so, are you planning any releases. I have a major
project and was hoping to use Postgres.

PostgreSQL will run on Vista, however to run the installer you will have
to temporarily disable User Account Control.

This is because the current stable version of PostgreSQL was released
some time before Vista so obviously couldn't be properly tested with it.

The installer for PostgreSQL 8.3 has already been rewritten as required
to support Vista.

Regards, Dave

michael.alexander@impowerproject.com wrote:

Can you confirm that you don't provide support for Windows Vista for any release
of Postgres. I'm dumbfounded an it appears that you don't support Vista. If so,
are you planning any releases. I have a major project and was hoping to use
Postgres.

I too am dumbfounded and outraged, outraged!!! that Microsoft failed to
provide engineering or test support in the run up to releasing Vista.
You'd think they had a rival product, or something against open-source,
or some such.

BTW - where does it say the project doesn't/isn't planning to support Vista?

30 seconds googling seems to suggest otherwise:
http://www.nabble.com/Installation-fails-on-windows-vista-t3724831.html
http://www.nabble.com/Installation-fails-on-windows-vista-t3724831.html

And it looks like the forthcoming 8.3 is being tested daily:
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

Dave Page wrote:

michael.alexander@impowerproject.com wrote:

Can you confirm that you don't provide support for Windows Vista for any
release of Postgres. I'm dumbfounded an it appears that you don't
support Vista. If so, are you planning any releases. I have a major
project and was hoping to use Postgres.

PostgreSQL will run on Vista, however to run the installer you will have
to temporarily disable User Account Control.

This is because the current stable version of PostgreSQL was released
some time before Vista so obviously couldn't be properly tested with it.

The installer for PostgreSQL 8.3 has already been rewritten as required
to support Vista.

I've not tried Postgres on Vista yet - I run it on Linux, however I have found
most Windows XP software that won't run by default on vista will do provided you
mark the executable to run in XP compatible mode - you don't have to turn off
'User Account Control'.

Worth trying : right mouse click on the Postgres installer, select the
'compatibility' tab and then Windows XP (Service Pack 2) from the drop down.

Pete
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