Re: cygwin and postgresql

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "James B(dot) Byrne" <byrnejb(at)harte-lyne(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: cygwin and postgresql
Date: 2009-06-14 19:45:41
Message-ID: dcc563d10906141245o57ab706cif425bc0e2616d0ee@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, James B. Byrne<byrnejb(at)harte-lyne(dot)ca> wrote:
> This may not be the right place for this question but I am going to
> start here anyway.
>
> I have installed postgresql in cygwin on a MS-WinXPpro system.  I
> wish to initialise  a database instance.  However, I cannot find any
> program file called initdb.  In /usr/bin I can see files like:
> pg_config.exe, pg_dump.exe and pg_dumpall.exe but no initdb.exe
> anywhere.  Is there something about initdb that I do not understand
> or some reason why it would not form part of the cygwin
> installation?

Is there a reason you're not using the native windows postgresql packages?

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