Re: Re: [GENERAL] Trouble porting postgreSQL to WinNT

At 14:07 30/01/01 -0600, Fred Yankowski wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:41:11AM -0800, Barry Lind wrote:
> > Yes I had the same problem, but for me the reason was that I forgot to
> > start the ipc-daemon before running initdb. Last night I had no
> > problems installing beta4 on WinNT 4.0.
>
>Also, AFAICT, ipc-daemon must be running under the same NT logon as
>the logon that you're using to run initdb (or postmaster), or else
>you'll see initdb hang (but use lots of CPU).

Doh! That would explain it (although my CPU was idle).

Anyhow, it's now running (my linux box still has problems - won't connect
to the net - so I'm having to rely on NT to get JDBC sorted). Oh hum.

>This a major PITA for me, because I went by the book (figuratively)
>and set up the postgres service to run under a 'postgres' NT logon
>account created for just that purpose. That means I have to run
>ipc-daemon logged on as postgres as well. That's not so bad, but now
>when I want to run 'make check' to run regression tests I have to
>logon as postgres to do that as well (since the tests run initdb and
>postmaster). Since Cygwin doesn't have any su/sudo (again, AFAICT)
>this means logging off my usual development logon, losing all my
>pretty windows, and into the postgres login. (Makes me appreciate
>Linux all the more, as if I needed that.)

I can't wait to get the linux box back up. Even though I like JBuilder for
the IDE, I still prefer Linux for the serious backend stuff.

>I don't understand why a single ipc-daemon process can't serve
>processes for multiple NT logons at once. Or can it, and I just don't
>have it set up right?

Not sure on that one.

Peter