quizzical postgres
With a fair bit of fanfare, Postgres launched a native Win32 installer sometime back. It's still a beta, though and buggy. After my catastrophe with Cygwin/Postgres, I decided that now would be as good a time as any to upgrade to a native version.
No dice. For my own safety, Postgres will not install on an adminstrative user account. But wait. I'm not an administrator. In fact, I can't create new user accounts on this machine and Postgres insists that I must do. Well, so much for installing on my own desktop. Move onto another machine, that I in fact do administer. After a few inane questions, the installer says "Postgres is now ready to install" and just quits. Er. nothing installed. Hello ? Postgres ? Bueller ? anyone ?
Go back to beta1. That installs. Then I run up against a tricky firewall issue. I need to make the postmaster listen on an alternate port. So, I should launch postmaster manually, from the command line with some appropriate options set. Unfortunately, I need to login as the "postgres" user in order to do so. Then, I remembered runas. Phew. Done. I finally have a working installation of Win32 Postgres 8 running.
The installer is in beta, and I shouldn't be too critical. But for heavens sake, think that people might want to run a development instance without all the security ? Let "power-users" bypass the additional bells and whistles, for heavens sake. The installer is a bit too picky to be user friendly.
and although I refused to publish the results of the latest quiz bandwagon, I do have a couple of other personality tests for anyone who spends a lot of time taking these. Wired examines autism and what highschool stereotype are you.
No dice. For my own safety, Postgres will not install on an adminstrative user account. But wait. I'm not an administrator. In fact, I can't create new user accounts on this machine and Postgres insists that I must do. Well, so much for installing on my own desktop. Move onto another machine, that I in fact do administer. After a few inane questions, the installer says "Postgres is now ready to install" and just quits. Er. nothing installed. Hello ? Postgres ? Bueller ? anyone ?
Go back to beta1. That installs. Then I run up against a tricky firewall issue. I need to make the postmaster listen on an alternate port. So, I should launch postmaster manually, from the command line with some appropriate options set. Unfortunately, I need to login as the "postgres" user in order to do so. Then, I remembered runas. Phew. Done. I finally have a working installation of Win32 Postgres 8 running.
The installer is in beta, and I shouldn't be too critical. But for heavens sake, think that people might want to run a development instance without all the security ? Let "power-users" bypass the additional bells and whistles, for heavens sake. The installer is a bit too picky to be user friendly.
and although I refused to publish the results of the latest quiz bandwagon, I do have a couple of other personality tests for anyone who spends a lot of time taking these. Wired examines autism and what highschool stereotype are you.
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