PostgreSQL 7.3 under Windows/cygwin: initdb fails with error IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget ... failed: Function not implemented

Hi,

I have a serious problem installing PostgreSQL 7.3 on Windows.
I have an up-to-date cygwin installation under Windows2000 Server sp3,
installed the cygipc 1.11-1 package as instructed,
but I fail to initialize the database.

Querying www.boost.com and groups.boost.com was not much help, much
problems related to the error message
"IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget" "Function not implemented" do not relate to
Windows/cygwin, and I found nothing that helps to get ahead.

Here the steps taken:

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ cygcheck -V
cygcheck version 1.29
System Checker for Cygwin
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Nov 27 2002

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ ipc-daemon &
[1] 1536

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ ls -la /var/pgdata
total 4
drwx------+ 2 Administ 65535 4096 Dec 26 22:38 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 8 Administ None 0 Dec 26 13:28 ..

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ ps -ef
UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
hrs 1616 1 con 00:26:53 /usr/bin/bash
hrs 1536 1616 con 00:29:05 /usr/local/bin/ipc-daemon
hrs 1264 1616 con 00:31:15 /usr/bin/ps

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ cygcheck -c postgresql
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
postgresql 7.3-1

Use -h to see help about each section

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
$ initdb -D /var/pgdata
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "hrs".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

Fixing permissions on existing directory /var/pgdata... ok
creating directory /var/pgdata/base... ok
creating directory /var/pgdata/global... ok
creating directory /var/pgdata/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /var/pgdata/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in /var/pgdata/base/1... IpcSemaphoreCreate:
semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed: Function n
ot implemented

initdb failed.

hrs(at)HRSW2KSRV2 ~
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