Re: Question

Stan,

Please post instead of sending private email.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:51:44PM +0000, Stan Sewall wrote:
> Read your notes to the letter concerning the build for postgres 7.3.4.
> Used cygwin 1.3-4 and cygipc 1.14-1.
>
> Windows 2000 Server SP4.
>
> ipc-daemon starts without a hitch.
>
> Move on to the initdb and I receive this error message:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgres/data/mr
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "ss_mps".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/mr... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/mr/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/mr/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/mr/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/mr/pg_clog... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgres/data/mr/base/1... ok
> creating configuration files... ok
> initializing pg_shadow... LOG:  FindExec: invalid binary "/usr/bin/postgres"
> FATAL:  /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
>
> initdb failed.
> Removing /usr/share/postgres/data/mr.
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> The path is set up for C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Sigh...  I just answered this one (again) yesterday!

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-08/msg00098.php

Jason

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