On 2009-06-14, James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>
> On Sun, June 14, 2009 15:45, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> why it would not form part of the cygwin
>>> installation?
>>
>> Is there a reason you're not using the native windows postgresql
>> packages?
>>
>
> Because for some reason, processes running in the cygwin environment
> could not create databases in the postgresql instance running in
> windows.
that's odd, were you specifying host=localhost, if not it may be
that the cygwin processes were trying to use local sockets.
(oner difference of the native windows postgres to linux is no local
sockets)
> As I develop for Linux and use cygwin to (mostly)
> replicate that environment on my MS-Win laptop I thought that moving
> everything having to do with the development environment under
> cygwin would be best.
I develop for windows on a linux desktop (exact opposite of what you do!)
