thanks for the help, Jason.
i had one more question,
can i run postgresql's postmaster as the service under windows NT/2000 ,with
out the need of cygwin console?
if yes, how to specify the data path?
--Ravi Shankar--
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason@tishler.net>
To: "ravi(hotmail)" <banka_ravi@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Pgsql-Cygwin" <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: CYGWin-Postgres
> Ravi,
>
> Please post to <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org> instead of sending private
> email.
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:02:32PM +0530, ravi(hotmail) wrote:
> > hi jatson,
> > This is Ravi Shankar, i am working on a project using postgresql
database
> > server, I have installed cygwin with postgresql database server. but the
> > database is not getting initilised.
> > i tryed as below.
> >
> > as administrator Created directory.
> > $ /var/lib/pgsql/data
> >
> > now typed the command to initilise the database as follows.
> >
> > & initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> > "Administrator".
> > This user must also own the server process.
> >
> > Fixing permissions on existing directory /lib/postgresql/data... ok
> > creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/base... ok
> > creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/global... ok
> > creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> > creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> > creating template1 database in /lib/postgresql/data/base/1...
> >
> > and the process hangs it goes in to infinite loop...
> > hoping for an early responce, please...
>
> You forgot to start ipc-daemon. Please read the README:
>
>
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.2.1.README
>
> Jason