Help with installing pokertracker3 with postgreSQL

[eclipserst19]

hello,
i have done a search about this and could not find anything, i just purchased pokertracker 3 and i cannot get it too load on my comp, i have win xp professional, it gets almost installing then i get this message "failed to run initdb: 1! Please see the logfile in C:\program files\postgresql\8.3\tmp\initdb.log" Note! you must read/copy this logfile before you click OK, or it will be automatically removed.

can someone please help me on this matter

thanks steve

[kraada]

Can you please copy and paste the contents of that file here so that we can see what it says (if you hit "OK" already you'll need to attempt to install again until it gives that error then go open the file in question and copy and paste the contents before clicking "OK")?

[eclipserst19]

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "SYSTEM".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

creating directory C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data ... initdb: could not create directory "C:/Program Files": File exists


not sure what this means

[kraada]

Did you have PostgreSQL installed before? If not, delete the C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL and then attempt to install again.

If you already had PostgreSQL installed uncheck "initialize database" in the installation and then it won't try to create the database again and it'll just use what's already there.

[eclipserst19]

ok i did and it installed, now when i try to open pokertracker a box pops open that wants me to configure postgresql server
all the boxes are filled in except the password, i tired svcpass and dbpass neither work so i cannot connect

[eclipserst19]

i went to start menu and postgrsql, start service, but it just keeps going and never acutally starts, is this normal

[kraada]

You can disable password authentication by following the directions of this tutorial. Try that, then it doesn't matter what you put in the password field.

[eclipserst19]

i must have messed something up, i have uninstalled and reinstalled again, still getting error messages, when i go to disable the password, i click on the file and it opens up a blank notepad page and asks if i would like to create one! i have never installed postgsql before so im not sure whats going on, i have followed the turtioals too

[eclipserst19]

also when i try to goto postgrsql page its just blank i was going to redownload it and install it manully

[kraada]

You can download the manual PostgreSQL installer from this link.