If you've ever tried to install PostgreSQL under Windows, you know, despite the help offered by several FAQs and on these lists, it can be a pain. Mercifully, the latest cygwin downloads include PostgreSQL, and it works fine, almost out of the box. 1) Install cygwin from www.cygwin.com. 2) Donwload the binary cygipc distribtuion from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/ (Tested w/cygipc 1.09-2) 3) Move the cygipc tarball to the root of your cygwin installation (by default, c:\cygwin) 4) In cygwin, unpack this with: tar xzvf /cygipc-1.09-2.tar.gz 5) Start cygipc running with /usr/local/bin/ipc-daemon & 6) initdb -D /var/pgsql 7) pg_ctl -D /var/pgsql 8) psql template1 Worked fine for me, and much easier than the tangle of things to try when working from the source install. (Tried on Win2000 professional & Win2000 server). The short story: if you've tried before and given up, try now. HTH, -- Joel Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])