Re: Postgres on NT

I haven't come that far myself, although i spent a lot time over the
weekend.

Have you checked out the [PORT] newsgroup. There is a lot more info there
regarding NT setup of pg.

Regards

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Assefa Yewondwossen" <assefa@dmsolutions.on.ca>
To: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Postgres on NT


> Hi All,
>
>  I have downloaded NT binaries and would like to start using postgres. I
> have checked the tutorials but could not get started correctly.
>
>  The tar files dowloaded do not have a postmaster executable (I do not
> no if it is necessary on NT or it is just a on UNIX).
>
>  I tried to start posgres.exe and I get the following message :
>
> $ postgres
> DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Thu Aug 24 10:12:16 2000
> DEBUG:  Data Base System was interrupted being in production at Wed Aug
> 23 17:18
> :25 2000
> DEBUG:  Data Base System is in production state at Thu Aug 24 10:12:16
> 2000
> FATAL 1:  Version number in file 'd:\proj\pgsql\data/PG_VERSION' should
> be 7.0
> , not 7.0
> .
> FATAL 1:  Version number in file 'd:\proj\pgsql\data/PG_VERSION' should
> be 7.0
> , not 7.0
> .
>  I do not really understand why there is fatal error on the version
> (seems to be the same).
>
>
> When I tried other executables :
>
>   $ psql
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or
>         Is the postmaster running at 'localhost'
>         and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?
>
>
>  Any help would be really appreciated to get me started.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>