Re: postgres on cygwin

George,

Please keep your replies on-list.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:05:48PM -0400, George, Martin wrote:
> Thank you very much for your quick reply.

You are quite welcome.

> I am new to the unix world and "weak" on protocol.

See above.

> I did not know which post to use (Cygwin, PostGres, or something
> else?)

Either cygwin@ or pgsql-cygwin@ will work.

> I was using PostGreSQL 7.4.5.1.

I assumed so.

> The problem was answered when:
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README
> referenced:
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README
> in which it was stated to use:
> set CYGWIN=server
> as an environment variable.

Ditto.

> Doing this allowed WinXP to run PostGres on Cygwin.

Ditto.

> Note: (I am sure you know) there are syntactical differences
> between SQL under Windows PostGres and Cygwin Postgres
> 1) could not use quotes to enclose strings
> 2) could not use spaces

Actually, I have never used the native Windows PostgreSQL before.
Nevertheless, if the above is really an issue, then you should post this
to one of the other PostgreSQL mailing lists (maybe the Win32 or the
general one).

> Again thank you very much for your direct reply. I really appreciate
> it.

Again, you are quite welcome.

Jason

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