Re: initdb failing !

Thanks Daniel. That did it. I was missing this
important step. I do not think I saw it in any of the
documents.

Regards,
SR

--- Daniel Secomb <dan(at)ds-d(dot)com> wrote:
> Run the following in your shell before running
> cygserver:
>
> export CYGWIN=server
>
> That should do it.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf
> Of S R
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:51 AM
> To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: irq7service(at)yahoo(dot)com
> Subject: [CYGWIN] initdb failing !
>
>
> I am trying to (for the first time) setup PostgreSQL
> (version 7.4.3) on my windows 2000 box. I have
> cygwin
> (version 1.5.10) installed and running. However,
> when
> I give "initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data" command in
> a
> cygwin window, I get an error "initdb failed".
> Following is the dump on the screen (when the
> command
> is run with -d option):
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> $ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -d
> Running in debug mode.
>
> initdb: internal variables:
> PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
> datadir=/usr/share/postgresql
> PGPATH=/usr/bin
> ENCODING=
> ENCODINGID=0
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=Jaguar
> POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki
>
>
POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.descrip
>
>
POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres
>
>
PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sampl
>
>
PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.s
> The files belonging to this database system will be
> own
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale
> C.
>
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global...
> ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog...
> ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog...
> ok
> selecting default max_connections... Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> 2
> selecting default shared_buffers... Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/ba
> IpcMemoryCreate(size=950272)
> Signal 12
>
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory
> "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Any pointers ? It will be great help.
>
> Thanks,
> SR
>
>
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