Re: Problems with initdb on Cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Frank Joerdens
Subject Re: Problems with initdb on Cygwin
Date
Msg-id 20020126195256.E511@superfly.archi-me-des.de
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In response to Re: Problems with initdb on Cygwin  (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>)
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:42:08AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de> writes:
> > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:
> > >> Just my 2ct - but could it be you did not start ipc-daemon?
> >
> > > You're absolutely right. That was the problem! (This is explained
> > > *somewhere* . . . I seem to recall that I had the problem once, solved
> > > it that way, and forgot about it.)
> >
> > Arrgh!  Clearly, this needs to be documented much more prominently than
> > it is now.  Any suggestions about an appropriate place to mention it?
>
> How about a FAQ.cygwin?

It's there in the source tree under docs/FAQ_MSWIN and mentioned in the
INSTALL file. You only really get tripped if you don't compile from
source.

Regards, Frank

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