Postgresql post-installation error

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Error installing postgresql subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 64 Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 6 months ago. Active 6 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 2k times. I'll explain what I've found below, but here's the entire output: sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib Reading package lists Done Building dependency tree Reading state information Done The following extra packages will be installed: postgresql After this operation, Do you want to continue?

Selecting previously unselected package postgresql-common. Reading database Preparing to unpack Selecting previously unselected package postgresql Unpacking postgresql Selecting previously unselected package postgresql.

Remember abouy deleting postgres user from Administrators group and add him to Power Users group, as in point 7. Installation may not complete correctly statlook database statlook postgres installation Was this article helpful? Contact Us media-press. Knowledge Base Search For Search. Confirm the password. EnterpriseDB seems to be the official windows distribution, at least the website looks like that to me. Looks like they're dumping Windows and Mac downloads.

Different error, same result. Hard luck. Try to find a log that tells you what exactly went wrong. Maybe switch to Linux, where life is easier. Unfortunately I can't switch to Linux on my work notebook. I installed postgres myself using the EDB zip, initialized it and installed it as service. Ronaldo 3, 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges.

Jessy Jessy 1. This is definitely not a solution. It just works by accident. I am facing this problem since Postgres versions back to 9. On some Windows machines the initdb works perfectly, on others it fails. The usual solution mostly is "Use a different user account for installation" The Windows initdb programmers obviously heavily mess around with user permissions, which makes to operation fail on some systems. If you could capture the salient parts from the post mentioned in your question, that would be great.

As it is, this is a link-only answer, and the target content of the link might change at any time. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. PostgreSql would have created a database with the user postgres and the password being the value you inputted during installation. Ignoring this will give you constant password authentication failed messages, since you'll be attempting to login as your PC's ID. Once logged into psql through psql -U postgres , you can use the following commands.

I'll add some more examples if I run into any more problems during my first couple of days of usage. I had the same problem during installation. What worked for me was to uninstall Postgres and the run the. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 7 years, 8 months ago.

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