The problem in connecting as myself was conf setting to allow tcp_ip
socket connections. I don't even reach that stage when doing initdb as postgres. So, right
now, I still don’t have postgres as a DB user,
and
fail to
run as a service, because I the error below. There I start install
I installed cygwin-based postgreSQL. I have not been able yet to start it as a
service (net start postmaster), apparently because of permissions problems. I’m
waiting on some suggestions, hopefully, about that.
I can connect to the DB w/o starting a service from the cygwin command line,