Re: INITDB

You need to do one of the following:

. copy libpq.dll into the bin directory where initdb.exe lives, or
. add the lib directory where libpq.dll lives to your path

cheers

andrew

Chris Holmes Co UK wrote:

>Okay.. totally a windows person... But I need to play around with postgresql
>for a customer.... So downloaded 7.5 followed the instructions down to the
>initdb -L (or -D) then path to database....
>
>I get "this application failed to start because libpq.dll was not found,
>re-installing the application may fix this problem"
>
>I have tried just that- I even tried just executing initdb and got same
>result.
>
>Any help would be appreciated as its seems that if I succeed the rest of the
>project could provide good testing for the coders
>Chris
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