Re: initdb failure with PostgreSQL 7.3.2 / Cygwin 1.3.22-1 / - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

Jason Tishler wrote:
> Frank,
>
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:11PM -0400, Frank Seesink wrote:
>
>>4.  Follow the instructions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.3.2.README
>>______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>WARNING:  One issue I still found is that when a user reaches step #10
>>          in the README, they may get the following:
>>    ____________________________________________________________
>>    $ psql -U postgres template1
>>    psql: could not connect to server: Bad file descriptor
>>            Is the server running locally and accepting
>>            connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>>    ____________________________________________________________
>
>
> The above is fixed in Cygwin CVS:
>
>     http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00053.php
>
> and the Cygwin snapshots:
>
>     http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> Just download the latest cygwin1-YYYYMMDD.dll.bz2, bunzip2 it, and
> replace cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-YYYYMMDD.dll (when *all* Cygwin process
> are stopped).

    Thanks, Jason.  Will do.

    Oh, and over lunch I realized one faux pax in what I wrote.
'postmaster' runs not under the SYSTEM user context, but 'postgres'.
Duh.  My bad.