Re: How to Install PostgreSQL on Windows 2000

I sent a reply to this question early this month.  Here it is again with
some additional info on services for you:

Try the following pages:

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?install-win32.html
http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql_win_setup_faq.jsp
http://www.cygwin.com/

I think I got my install working from the information in those sites.  The
first one is the postgres info, the 2nd is a great source of info, and the
third is the cygwin utils you'll need (click the "Install now" link on the
page).

Mike

[new info]

To run ipc-daemon as a service in win2k/nt you can use the SRVANY.EXE
program from NT 4.0 (might be in win2k as well) resource kit.  The only
caveat is that the ipc-daemon app itself must ignore the CTRL_C, CTRL_BREAK,
CTRL_CLOSE, CTRL_LOGOFF, and CTRL_SHUTDOWN signals (by default, when a
console handler receives any one of these signals, it calls ExitProcess()).
I don't know what ipc-daemon does in this case since I haven't set it up as
a service (I only use it in win2k for testing and development our production
server runs on HP-UX).

Hope that helps!


-----Original Message-----
From: Al Willis [mailto:alwillis@pdq.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 3:44 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] How to Install PostgreSQL on Windows 2000


Can someone point me to the idiots guide on how to install PostgreSQL on a
Windows 2000 computer?

I have read several newsgroup postings and the PostgreSQL documentation but
I don't get far enough.  I've downloaded and installed cygwin and cygipc.  I
don't understand how to get ipc-daemon installed as a Windows 2000 service.

Al Willis



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