Re: PostgreSQL for NT

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "W(dot) van den Akker" <wvdakker(at)wilsoft(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL for NT
Date: 2000-11-19 00:14:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011190111390.1331-100000@peter.localdomain
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W. van den Akker writes:

> FindExec: could not find a postgres to execute...
> FATAL 1: postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
> FATAL 1: postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
>
> If I run postgres.exe from the bash shell then I have no problems.

The reason for this is that the program does a shell-like path walk to
find itself. If you are not running a Unix-like shell then you don't have
a PATH variable in the environment (or at least you have one with
semicolons as separators). Using absolute file names might work.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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