Re: PGSQL 8-beta For WinXP Home Edition Instructions

The 8.beta is a native Win32 port. You don't need Cygwin. Just click
on it and install it as a normal app.

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operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> Can anybody help get me started here? I've downloaded the 8-beta .msi file and ran set up on my XP Home laptop. Now I have no clue what to do.
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> I followed Carlo's web tutorial and got almost all the way through the Cygwin install for 7.4.3 (many, many times), but, alas, I ended here...
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> When I type in the three lines of code - cygrunsrv --install postmaster ... --shutdown, I get the following error:
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> cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenService: win32 error 1073: The specified service exists already.
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> When I type in cygrunsrv: --start postmaster, I get the following error:
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> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: The service did not start due to logon failure.
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> That's when I quite that route and went with the version 8-beta. The only problem is, I haven't seen any instructions that make a lick of sense to me.
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> Any guidance would be appreciated. I really want to standardize on PGSQL rather than MySQL, but this whole painful process has left my head ringing.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will post a tutorial of what I did to get PGSQL up and running if I'm able to do it. If not, I guess I have to go with MySQL even though I would prefer not to go that route.
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> TIA...
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