Re: Install from Source On Windows - University of Sydney Research

Thanks Scott and Craig, I will give this a go today evening. Will let you
know if it worked.

Kushal

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Craig Ringer
<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:48 +1000, Kushal Vaghani wrote:
> > okay guys I will get 8.2.13, so would running the install.pl would be
> > different.
> >
> > I will try and see if I can compile and run as mentioned from the
> > docs. But would there be any script after install.pl to run the
> > postmaster, initDB
>
> You'll probably want to initdb, edit the postgresql.conf created by
> initdb as desired, then start the postmaster manually using pg_ctl
> (making sure to point pg_ctl at the data directory you created). It's
> not hard.
>
> If you want to automate it, just write a batch file. Remember to use
> ".cmd" not ".bat" so you run under the win32 cmd.exe script processor
> not the ancient dos emulation monster command.com .
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
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