Re: Starting postgres 8.0.3

Joe <svn@freedomcircle.net> wrote:

> Peter Billen wrote:
> > Sorry for my quick message and 3 replies in a row. I forgot to do 'initdb'
> > before starting the database. Everything works flawless now.
>
> I'm glad you worked it out.  I forgot to mention something:  you had said
> that
> you didn't want to install PostgreSQL as a service because you didn't want to
> have it started automatically every time Windows booted up.  Well, you can
> install it as a service and still control when it gets started.  After the
> service is installed, you can go to the Services applet in the Control Panel,
> left click on PostgreSQL and open its Properties, and then select Startup
> type
> "Manual".  Then when you want to start it, you can do so from the Services
> applet, or from the command line/Run dialog box using the command NET START.

Cool! Thanks for pointing that out Joe.

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Peter