Re: initdb failed (terminated signal 5)

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You didn't set your path. There are executable files in C:\postgres\bin,
and some library files in C:\postgres\lib that need to be in the path.
That's probably the signal 5 error.

Otherwise, at one point there was a bug in the build, there was a huge
discussion involving the signal 5 stuff. They never found the exact
cause, though.
John
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Peter Manten wrote:

| I tried to install the windows version of postgre 7.5 dev, but got some
| errors during the proces.
| This is what I did:
| 1) unzip the download in c:\postgres
| 2) add to my path c:\postgres\bin and c:\postgres\lib
| 3) add environmental variable PGDATA with value c:\postgres\data.
| (So far no problem)
| 4) open command window and type initdb -L "c:/postgres/share".
|
| Then I get the following output in the command window:
| ....
| ....
| creating configuration files ... ok
| creating template1 database in c:/postgres/data/base/1 ... child proces
| was terminated by signal 5
| initdb: failed
| initdb: removing contents of data directory "c:/postgres/data/

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