The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 3868
Logged by: Jan Arne Hansen
Email address: pederzent@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.2.6
Operating system: Windows Vista
Description: Unattended install fails
Details:

mkdir c:\postgres
msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi /qr INTERNALLAUNCH=1 DOSERVICE=0
ADDLOCAL=server,psql,binfiles,jdbc,psqlodbc SUPERPASSWORD="sitt0"
BASEDIR="c:\postgres" /L* log.txt

I am not able to install PostgreSQL as a service. The user is not created.
XP is ok, Vista is not. This example fails as well, even when I am not
installing the service.

Please advise.

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:30:20PM +0000, Jan Arne Hansen wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 3868
> Logged by: Jan Arne Hansen
> Email address: pederzent@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.6
> Operating system: Windows Vista
> Description: Unattended install fails
> Details:
>
> mkdir c:\postgres
> msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi /qr INTERNALLAUNCH=1 DOSERVICE=0
> ADDLOCAL=server,psql,binfiles,jdbc,psqlodbc SUPERPASSWORD="sitt0"
> BASEDIR="c:\postgres" /L* log.txt
>
> I am not able to install PostgreSQL as a service. The user is not created.
> XP is ok, Vista is not. This example fails as well, even when I am not
> installing the service.

User creation on Vista is not supported on 8.2. It is be supported in
8.3. I think you can also get it working if you use the EnterpriseDB
Postgres distribution for 8.2, which uses the installer code from 8.3.

//Magnus

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