Problems with the Windows 8.4.1 upgrade from 8.3 on non-C drive

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#1dtrobert
droberts@clarussystems.com

Hi,
We have tried this at least with Windows 2008 64-bit server and the problem
is very reproducible (multiple systems):

1. Install 8.3 on some non-C drive (say E:\)
2. Run the 8.4.1 installer to upgrade this install

it appears that the 8.4.1 doesn't realize 8.3 is even installed

Result: Installation fails with a permission problem. It seems certain files
from 8.3 are not able to be deleted. When I manually try to delete them,
even with the Administrator user, it fails. I ultimately needed to take
ownership and then give Full Control before I was allowed to delete them.

There is no problem with this upgrade on the C:\ drive.

Thanks
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#2Sachin Srivastava
sachin.srivastava@enterprisedb.com
In reply to: dtrobert (#1)
Re: Problems with the Windows 8.4.1 upgrade from 8.3 on non-C drive

The one-click installers are designed in such a way that you can have
different major versions of postgresql co-exist on the same machine.
Thats the reason, the 8.4.1 installer doesn't realize that 8.3 is even
installed.

On 2/26/10 12:56 AM, dtrobert wrote:

Hi,
We have tried this at least with Windows 2008 64-bit server and the problem
is very reproducible (multiple systems):

1. Install 8.3 on some non-C drive (say E:\)
2. Run the 8.4.1 installer to upgrade this install

it appears that the 8.4.1 doesn't realize 8.3 is even installed

Result: Installation fails with a permission problem. It seems certain files
from 8.3 are not able to be deleted. When I manually try to delete them,
even with the Administrator user, it fails. I ultimately needed to take
ownership and then give Full Control before I was allowed to delete them.

There is no problem with this upgrade on the C:\ drive.

Thanks

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Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com&gt;, the Enterprise Postgres
<http://www.enterprisedb.com&gt; company.

#3John Gage
jsmgage@numericable.fr
In reply to: Sachin Srivastava (#2)
Re: Problems with the Windows 8.4.1 upgrade from 8.3 on non-C drive

I realize that this is a feature and not a bug, but what I ran into
confronting the same issue was the fact that the servers listen on
different ports and when I uninstalled the older version, the newer
version was listening on a non-standard port. This caused some
confusion for awhile.

I also realize that having both versions on the same port may be both
impossible and unwise or some power of both, but is there a standard
port that they are "competing" for in some dark server hell.

On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:57 AM, Sachin Srivastava wrote:

Show quoted text

The one-click installers are designed in such a way that you can
have different major versions of postgresql co-exist on the same
machine. Thats the reason, the 8.4.1 installer doesn't realize that
8.3 is even installed.

On 2/26/10 12:56 AM, dtrobert wrote:

Hi,
We have tried this at least with Windows 2008 64-bit server and the
problem
is very reproducible (multiple systems):

1. Install 8.3 on some non-C drive (say E:\)
2. Run the 8.4.1 installer to upgrade this install

it appears that the 8.4.1 doesn't realize 8.3 is even installed

Result: Installation fails with a permission problem. It seems
certain files
from 8.3 are not able to be deleted. When I manually try to delete
them,
even with the Administrator user, it fails. I ultimately needed to
take
ownership and then give Full Control before I was allowed to delete
them.

There is no problem with this upgrade on the C:\ drive.

Thanks

--
Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise Postgres company.