Re: Problem with connectiong to postmaster (WinNT 4.0 SP6)

David Lofsstrand wrote:

> Hello!

Hi David,

> I have sucessfully installed and compiled PostgreSQL 7.0 to
> WinNT 4.0 Workstation Service Pack 6
> My machine is a dual PIII-500 workstation (in case it can cause
> problems)
> The initdb script works as it should and everything works fine and
> runs smoothly until I try to start a program or a script that wants
> a connection to the postmaster.
>
> As an example:
> -----------------
> bash-2.02$ ipc-daemon.exe &
> [1] 1016
> bash-2.02$ postmaster -i &
> [2] 1017
> bash-2.02$ createdb testing
> psql: connectDBStart() -- socket() failed: errno=106
> Addresses in the specified family cannot be used with this socket
> createdb: database creation failed
> ------------------
>
> Any hints ?

Hmm.. I also built the binary for NT on Cygwin B20.1. The binary is at:

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.0/NT/

I think the PostgreSQL only runs on Cygwin.

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