Shay,
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:38:30AM +0200, Shay wrote:
> thanks for the swift answer,
You are welcome.
> i have downloaded through setup only the 1.3.9 CygWin component and
Good.
> installed only it and still the problem remains,
Bummers!
> i would like to point out i am using Windows XP maybe that is my problem -
> is XP not supported?
XP is supported because Cygwin supports XP. Sorry, but I don't have
access to XP, so I can't help to debug this problem. However, note that
others have reported success with XP.
> if any one has another idea it would be much help,
Try to use strace to debug. Note that you will have to temporarily
replace the postmaster symlink with a copy of postgres.exe:
$ rm /usr/bin/postmaster
$ cp /usr/bin/postgres.exe /usr/bin/postmaster.exe
This is because strace is *not* a Cygwin app, it's a Mingw app, and does
not understand symlinks.
Run strace as follows:
$ strace -o postmaster.log postmaster -i -D /database
You can also try posting your problem to the cygwin@cygwin.com list.
BTW, did you really initdb into /database?
Jason