Re: Bug #741: postgresql and cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Bug #741: postgresql and cygwin
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208222230410.11453-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Bug #741: postgresql and cygwin  (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org)
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> Przemyslaw Sztoch (psztoch@interia.pl) reports a bug with a severity of 3

> 1. If you use "-boot" then argv[0] in BootstrapMain is equal "-boot", but should be equal e.g. "/pgsql/postmaster".
> 2. Under cygwin symlink support is strange. It will be very nice to don't use it. I propose add "-master" parametr to
"postgres.exe"(like -boot). 
> "postmaster.exe -D /data" -> "postgres.exe -master -D /data"
> 3.Postmaster and postgres are both in one folder. And under MS-Windows we wouldn't have "postmaster", and only
"postgres-master". 
> In this case we have to repair postmaster.c.

Please explain specifically what your problem is.  What are you doing,
what is failing?  PostgreSQL on Cygwin works for a lot of users, including
myself, so you must be doing something out of the ordinary.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

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