On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:49:47PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > Any XP users successfully running PostgreSQL? If so, please post your > experiences to the list. I'm especially interested in XP Home, since I > assume that XP Pro will be the same as NT/2000.
I'm using XP Pro. > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:44:58PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I'm trying to install postgresql on windows XP. > > Please see the following thread: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2002-11/msg00037.php Oh, didn't know about that list yet ... > > I have a problem getting the ipc-deamon to work. When I run > > ipc-daemon --install-as-service, it doesn't want to start. > > What version of Cygwin are you using? An older version (IIRC, 1.3.13), > had issues with running ipc-daemon as a service. Please upgrade to the > latest Cygwin, if necessary. I'm using 1.3.15. It's a fresh install of a few days ago. > > If I then try my initdb, it hangs itself creating the template1 > > database, like in case the ipc-daemon isn't running. > > The above implies that you are not using the latest Cygwin PostgreSQL, > please upgrade to the latest. I'm still using 7.2.3-1, I guess I downloaded it just before 7.2.3-2 came out ... It seems it should just give a error instead of using all CPU. Anything else changed? > > Note that the documentation says that you have to run initdb > > before you start the ipc-daemon service, but I thought that that > > is wrong and initdb requires the service too. > > The above "typo" has been recently corrected: I knew about it, I've hit the same problem over a year ago. I wonder why it never got corrected. :) > Please read the README regarding what clean up is necessary when > switching the account under which ipc-daemon runs. I did remove the files in /tmp. I tried about everything I could think of. Kurt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/