The follwing cygwin snapshot works for me:
2001-Oct-08
cygwin1-20011008.dll.bz2
If you don't want to use a snapshot try cygwin-1.3.2
You will find more in the archives.
- Stuart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: FRANCIS MATHIAS BEKEMA [SMTP:francisb@deakin.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:52 AM
> To: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [CYGWIN] Some help would be nice
>
> I have installed the latest version of cygwin, cygipc,
> and postgresql on my win98 machine. Postgres
> builds fine. The following commands are all
> successfull:
>
> ipc-daemon &
> initdb
> postmaster -i &
>
> When I try to create the database using "createdb -h
> localhost testdb", I get the following error:
>
> pq_flush: send() failed: Invalid argument
> pq_recvbuf: recv() failed: The descriptor is a file,
> not a socket
> psql: pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel
> unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated
> abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> createdb: database creation failed
>
> Can anyone help?
>
>
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