Thread: PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP
Hi all. Maybe this has already been discussed, but here goes. I'm trying to run PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP Professional. After sometime I've learned that it must be installed under C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL for Cygwin to work (my default drive isD). When I run "initdb", it starts and when it reaches a point of creating "template1" DB, it - or should I say postmaster -crashes, saying it failed initialising Semaphores in a procedure Ipc*******. Now, I know that Windows most likely doesn'thave IPC and that *that* procedure must be some sort of "internal adapter" for different OSes. I'm also pretty sureit works on at least some other Windows OS, but I'd like to have it WinXP. Can anyone lend a hand, shed some light,... Nix.
Hi Nix, It sounds like you're trying to run the PostgreSQL "Proof of Concept" version, which is getting a bit out-of-date now. Although it's a little bit more tedious to install, the proper cygwin version is what you really should be looking at fornow. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin Hope that helps. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Nikola Milutinovic wrote: > Hi all. > > Maybe this has already been discussed, but here goes. I'm trying to run PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP Professional. After sometime I've learned that it must be installed under C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL for Cygwin to work (my default drive isD). > > When I run "initdb", it starts and when it reaches a point of creating "template1" DB, it - or should I say postmaster- crashes, saying it failed initialising Semaphores in a procedure Ipc*******. Now, I know that Windows most likelydoesn't have IPC and that *that* procedure must be some sort of "internal adapter" for different OSes. I'm also prettysure it works on at least some other Windows OS, but I'd like to have it WinXP. > > Can anyone lend a hand, shed some light,... > > Nix. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:29, Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Maybe this has already been discussed, but here goes. I'm trying to run
> PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP Professional. After some time I've learned that
> it must be installed under C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL for Cygwin to work
> (my default drive is D).
>
> When I run "initdb", it starts and when it reaches a point of creating
> "template1" DB, it - or should I say postmaster - crashes, saying it failed
> initialising Semaphores in a procedure Ipc*******. Now, I know that Windows
> most likely doesn't have IPC and that *that* procedure must be some sort of
> "internal adapter" for different OSes. I'm also pretty sure it works on at
> least some other Windows OS, but I'd like to have it WinXP.
>
> Can anyone lend a hand, shed some light,...
Yes, You have to download and install IPC package.
There is detailed description on how to install IPC and setup postgresql on
cygwin in /usr/share/packages or something like that. If You do not manage to
find it, let me know, I will send You right location(I'm on my linux box now
and can not check).
Regards !
P.S. Pomalo smješno, ali takva su pravila (pitanje na engleskom-odgovor na
engleskom)
Hi Nix, I'm using Postgres under WinXP Prof. It works properly and smoothly. I set up postgres 7.3.2 from the binary cygwin distribution. It does the most of the work but I aslo had to install cygipc-1.13-2 by hand to make it work. Thats all. The only thing I could suggest you trying this way. It must work. Do not forget to start ipc-daemon before starting postgres. I hope it'll be useful. Best Regards -- Csaba ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikola Milutinovic" <Nikola.Milutinovic@ev.co.yu> To: "PostgreSQL general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:29 AM Subject: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP > Hi all. > > Maybe this has already been discussed, but here goes. I'm trying to run PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP Professional. After some time I've learned that it must be installed under C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL for Cygwin to work (my default drive is D). > > When I run "initdb", it starts and when it reaches a point of creating "template1" DB, it - or should I say postmaster - crashes, saying it failed initialising Semaphores in a procedure Ipc*******. Now, I know that Windows most likely doesn't have IPC and that *that* procedure must be some sort of "internal adapter" for different OSes. I'm also pretty sure it works on at least some other Windows OS, but I'd like to have it WinXP. > > Can anyone lend a hand, shed some light,... > > Nix. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >
How can I discover which toast table referent to a phisic table? example: table name tbdmovimento. how could i know the toast table name to reindex it. tnx. Eric Anderson Martins Miranda Net Admin @ Via Net SAO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Clift" <justin@postgresql.org> To: "Nikola Milutinovic" <Nikola.Milutinovic@ev.co.yu> Cc: "PostgreSQL general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:44 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP > Hi Nix, > > It sounds like you're trying to run the PostgreSQL "Proof of Concept" version, which is getting a bit out-of-date now. > > Although it's a little bit more tedious to install, the proper cygwin version is what you really should be looking at for now. > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin > > Hope that helps. > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > > > Nikola Milutinovic wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Maybe this has already been discussed, but here goes. I'm trying to run PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on WinXP Professional. After some time I've learned that it must be installed under C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL for Cygwin to work (my default drive is D). > > > > When I run "initdb", it starts and when it reaches a point of creating "template1" DB, it - or should I say postmaster - crashes, saying it failed initialising Semaphores in a procedure Ipc*******. Now, I know that Windows most likely doesn't have IPC and that *that* procedure must be some sort of "internal adapter" for different OSes. I'm also pretty sure it works on at least some other Windows OS, but I'd like to have it WinXP. > > > > Can anyone lend a hand, shed some light,... > > > > Nix. > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > > -- > "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those > who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the > first group; there was less competition there." > - Indira Gandhi > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)
> > Hi Nix, > > > > It sounds like you're trying to run the PostgreSQL "Proof of Concept" > version, which is getting a bit out-of-date now. > > > > Although it's a little bit more tedious to install, the proper cygwin > version is what you really should be looking at for now. > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin Hi people, thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction - IPC Daemon of Cygwin was not running. Reasons for my initial failure wre multiple. Firstly, my default installation is on drive D:, while Cygwin was built fordrive C:. On the other hand, since the purpose of my installation was to test inputting data from a SQL script, builtfrom XML using XSLT (Xalan), all I needed was a running database. I didn't want to install PostgreSQL as a service.The "pgsqlstart" script doesn't start IPC daemon (maybe this needs to be corrected?). Also, my location of DATA directorywas different from the default, due to lack of space. :-) Well, having had 2 years of expirience with PgSQL on Tru64 UNIX, I found my way around. :-) Nix.