Re: [ADMIN] Cannot install postgreSQL

Ross,

Thanks for your reply.

>Postgres is different than postmaster. Although they're the same
>executable, you get different behavior based on the name it's invoked
>as. As postmaster, it's the daemon that serves incoming connections. As
>postgres, it starts up a 'backend' proceess that access the db files. So,
>yes, by running postgres.exe you _were_ trying to access the database
>romkur.

Ouch.

After a long struggle with Cygwin I finally managed to start the postmaster
(I had to create a new symbolic link because the installed one doesn't work
- even with System-attribute set).

Thanks again for your help,

Roman

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