postgresql installation failed

Question

I tried to install postgresql 8.4 in my windows 7 (64 bit). But it fails with following messages in log

Initialising the database cluster (this may take a few min         


        

Answer 1

I know it is not the the solution but installing 32 bit of Postgres, worked for me

Answer 2

I encountered an issue where a username with a space in it on windows fails the postgres installation.

To test:

• Reinstalled windows 10 home (restored)
• Made a user account without the space
• Postgres installed successfully

Very frustrating...

Answer 3

Struggling with this problem for days. Finally got help from the EDB team My problem got solved by doing the following steps :

1) Open the command prompt and go to the following directory:

cd "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\bin"

2) Once you are inside this "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\bin" directory execute the following command:

.\initdb.exe -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\data"

3) At the end of this command you will be promoted to execute a pg_ctl command to start the Postgres cluster. Please execute the command and once you get a message as the server started you are all set to use the Postgres database.

Note: Instead of 10 user whatever version you have installed. If the pg_ctl command in the third step gives an error after running it in \bin directory, then try running it in \data directory. After the above process re-run the installer.