Re: installing from source in Windows

On 19/10/10 11:58, Turner, John J wrote:
> I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source
> files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install.

Hmm, ok. Thanks for the heads-up, then. "Winzip mangles tar archives"
goes into the list of possible fault causes...

> So, now it's a hot mess of something - looks a far cry from the binary
> version I originally downloaded, but supposedly it's installed

Yep. It's really quite easy to use the installs built from source or
obtained as a binary zip, thankfully. You use initdb to create a data
directory, then pg_ctl to start the server once initdb has run. initdb
even prints out the pg_ctl command to use.

Installing it as a Windows service is a bit trickier, though.

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