16.2. Installing Postgres Pro Standard on Windows
On Windows systems, you can use a binary self-extracting interactive installer to install Postgres Pro core components and create the default database. The following components have their own installers that should be run separately once the core components are installed:
pg_probackup
16.2.1. External Connections and Windows Firewall
By default, Postgres Pro server is listening for connections from the localhost only. To allow external connections to Postgres Pro server, select the "Allow external connections" checkbox to add the appropriate parameter into the postgresql.conf file, add a line into the pg_hba.conf file, and create a Windows Firewall rule.
Note
Postgres Pro application is registered with Windows Firewall anyway, so if you have not enabled external connection during installation and decide to do it later, you only have to open Windows Firewall configuration in the Control Panel, find the Postgres Pro server here, and allow it to accept connections.
16.2.2. Supported Operating Systems
Postgres Pro is available for the following 64-bit Windows versions:
Windows 8.1, 10
Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher
16.2.3. Procedural Languages
The procedural languages PL/Perl, PL/Python are included in this distribution of Postgres Pro. The server has been built using the LanguagePack community distributions of those language interpreters. To use any of the these languages from within Postgres Pro, download and install the appropriate interpreters and ensure they are included in the PATH variable under which the database server will be started.
The current version of PL/Python is dynamically linked with Python shared library in the LanguagePack installers. Some distributions of Python interpreters (including ActivePython) on Windows do not include a dynamic library of Python. Such interpreters would no longer be functional with PL/Python. You are recommended to use LanguagePack installers for PL/Perl and PL/Python instead.
16.2.4. Windows Service Account
A special NT AUTHORITY\\NetworkService account is used by default. You can specify another Windows user for starting Postgres Pro service in the corresponding text box of the installer, if required. The provided user must have the right to start Windows services.
16.2.5. Command-Line Options
Installation directory path:
/D=path
Silent install:
/S
*.ini file with installation options:
/init=ini_file_name
16.2.6. INI File Format
You can add the following installation options to the [options] section of the INI file:
InstallDir— path where to install serverDataDir— path where to create default databasePort— TCP/IP port to listen. Default: 5432.SuperUser— name of the database user who will have admin rights in the databasePassword— password of the usernoExtConnections = 1— don't allow external connectionCoding = UNICODE— character encoding to use in the databaseLocale— locale to use in the database. There can be several different locales for each encodingvcredist = no— do not install Visual C redistributable libraries (use it only if these libraries are already installed on your system)envvar = 1— set up environment variables helpful for Postgres Pro:PGDATA,PGDATABASE,PGUSER,PGPORT,PGLOCALEDIRneedoptimization = 0— disable automatic tuning of configuration parameters based on the available system resources.datachecksums = 0— disable data checksums for the cluster.serviceaccount— specify a Windows user for starting Postgres Pro service. The provided user must have the right to start Windows services. By default, Postgres Pro service is started on behalf ofNT AUTHORITY\NetworkService, which is a special Windows Service Account.servicepassword— provide the password for the Windows user specified in theserviceaccountoption.serviceid— change Postgres Pro service name.islibc = 1— uselibcas the provider of the default collation.
16.2.7. Antivirus Considerations
It is strongly recommended to avoid using antivirus software on systems where Postgres Pro is running because it may cause additional load on your environment and result in unexpected database behavior that would lead to performance and reliability issues. If you need to use antivirus software, make sure to exclude the following directories from virus scanning as they do not contain any executable files:
PGDATAdirectory that stores main cluster dataPaths to created tablespaces