Thanks Jason. Yes, I'm using Windows 98. I have been using Cygwin and DJGPP
to try and pick a development suite of tools. MS Visual C++ is good, but it
won't have any of the output from flex or bison, so it's useless to me.
How do I tell which version of cygwin I have? I downloaded the installer
yesterday from cygwin.com and got all the binaries from planetmirror.com or
whatever it's called, so I should have the latest version.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason@tishler.net>
To: <gnudev@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] ipc-daemon initdb postmaster
> James,
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 06:25:34PM +1000, gnudev@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> > Problem is, I keep getting "Error: descriptor <blah> is a file
descriptor, not
> > a socket"
>
> Are you using 9x/Me? I have see other posts reporting similar error
> messages on these platforms. BTW, what version of Cygwin are you using?
> If you are not using 1.3.3, then please upgrade.
>
> > Does postgresql actually work on Cygwin or is it just an experiment at
the
> > moment?
> >
> > It seems to be as buggy as hell.
>
> Essentially all of my Cygwin PostgreSQL experience is on NT 4.0 and 2000.
> IMO, Cygwin PostgreSQL works quite well on these platforms. In fact,
> Terry Carlin from the now defunct GreatBridge, reported very decent
> performance results. See the following for details:
>
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1035232
>
> However, YMMV especially under 9x/Me.
>
> Jason
