Re: Help with Cygwin/Postgres

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "'Web Design'" <webdesigna(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help with Cygwin/Postgres
Date: 2001-11-20 08:49:40
Message-ID: AA30E7BCCA5C1D4E88A231900F8325C00CA7@dogbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Web Design [mailto:webdesigna(at)hotmail(dot)com]
> Sent: 17 November 2001 11:47
> To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [CYGWIN] Help with Cygwin/Postgres
>
>
> I thought I was doing myself a favor by purchasing a book
> from wrox on using
> PostgreSQL. I am trying to setup Cygwin on an XP box. I've
> installed
> Cygwin countless times and cant figure out what step im missing.
>
> From reading other posts, i gather that i don't need to
> compile postgres
> since i selected it in the installation of cygwin. The
> instuctions in my
> book don't tell me what to skip if im not compiling so im
> lost. Ive started
> the ipc service and i think i should do initdb now but where
> do i put it and
> do i make the dirs first since i didnt compile? What syntax
> do I use? I
> wish there was some list of objectives that i could
> understand and follow to
> help me with this.
>
> Any help or guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Take a look at /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.1.3.README in your Cygwin
installation. It should help...

Regards, Dave.

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