Thread: PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on a windows XP Pro environment Installation
Anyone successful in installing PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on a windows XP Pro environment? I've read various README's but seem daunting and confusing. I am at a stumbling block and cant get pass it. Anyone willing to e-mail the detailed steps to me would be much appreciated. Please don’t refer to me to the PostgreSQL README for 7.4.3. I've read it so many times and something keeps going wrong. I’m newbie to the LINUX environment too so some of the references seem like another language.
Thanks in advance,
Chuck
Would this be installing from source code or using a cygwin package? I use 7.4.3 under cygwin package on XP Pro 24x7. On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:17, Chuck Bernardes wrote: > Anyone successful in installing PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on a windows XP Pro > environment? I've read various README's but seem daunting and > confusing. I am at a stumbling block and cant get pass it. Anyone > willing to e-mail the detailed steps to me would be much appreciated. > Please don’t refer to me to the PostgreSQL README for 7.4.3. I've > read it so many times and something keeps going wrong. I’m newbie to > the LINUX environment too so some of the references seem like another > language. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Chuck > >
Thanks all in providing me some needed tips and information. Being a newbie to this environment, I was jumping from one set of README's from a previous versions and the reading the current README's for 7.4.3 and was confused on why one set of instructions was using the ipc-daemon2 and the current version using cygserver. In doing so, I also didn't realize the different path information and daemon or cygserver that were being used i.e. in the previous version it was referencing /usr/share/postgresql/data and the current was using /var/postgresql/data. I still don't know why the paths changed. Does anyone know? Overall, it was just a big mess in my part. I also found out that I didn't set my path and environmental variables correctly. After an exhaustive research based on previous past problems that other users posted, I was able to knock a problem off one by one. Sorry for being long winded, but just wanted to inform everyone that I was finally able to get it running on XP pro. Now on to configuring the database and its tables for my Company's website. Thanks, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Raymond O'Donnell [mailto:rod@iol.ie] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:25 AM To: Chuck Bernardes Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on a windows XP Pro environment Installation On 30 Jun 2004 at 16:17, Chuck Bernardes wrote: > Anyone successful in installing PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on a windows XP Pro > environment? I've read various README's but seem daunting and > confusing. I have 7.4.1 working on my XP Pro laptop, via Cygwin......I ran into all sorts of problems trying to compile from source, so in the end I just downloaded the pre-built binary from the Cygwin site and it worked first time. I use it for development, so I start/stop Postmaster by hand as necessary. The only thing that threw me initially was that you have to have ipc- daemon running - I think that's in a or a README somewhere. --Ray. ------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals rod@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals -------------------------------------------------------------