Thread: Starting postmaster as a service (newbie)

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:12:25AM -0400, Vinay wrote:
> figured that it is because I have to do the init db everytime this

I don't know anything about the Cyg Win installation, but you _don't_
need to do initdb every time: that creates a new data area.

A

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greetings.
it verifies that the user of win2000 has supervisor right, you can test, to
go to the services and to try to initiate it manually, verifies the step
word.
initdb single runs one you see.
my ingles is poor, is using the translator of google,
hopes helps you.

>From: "Vinay" <vinay@mdp.net>
>To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
>Subject: [ADMIN] Starting postmaster as a service (newbie)
>Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:12:25 -0400
>
>Hi,
>    I have got a peculiar problem with my postmaster.I have installed
>cyg-ipc and postmaster as services on Windows 2000.
>But when I restart the system , the postmaster doesn't start.I figured that
>it is because I have to do the init db everytime this happens. But I have
>to empty the data directory to do initdb in which case I will lose the
>created tables.
>
>Is there any solution for this problem, so that I need not have to run
>initdb and delete the data directory every time the postmaster fails to
>start.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>help appreciated
>
>Vinay

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