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Ilan Fait
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<br /><br /><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Hi,</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">I need help with finding some Documentation about how to install PostGerSQL on
windows2000</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Step by step since</font> <font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">I am trying to install PostGerSQL DB on Win2000 O/S.</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">I have install the Cygwin but when I try create a database I get:</font><p
align="LEFT"><fontcolor="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">$ createdb iweb</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"
face="Arial"size="2">psql: FATAL: PQsetdbLogin(): Unable to determine a Postgres username!</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">createdb: database creation failed</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"
face="Arial"size="2">So I try to create a user I get:</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"
size="2">$createuser iweb</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Shall the new user be
allowedto create databases? (y/n) y</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Shall the new
userbe allowed to create more new users? (y/n) y</font><p align="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"
size="2">psql:FATAL: PQsetdbLogin(): Unable to determine a Postgres username!</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">createuser: creation of user "iweb" failed</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">Can you please explain how do I need to install the database that it will run on
Win2000</font><palign="LEFT"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font><p align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"face="Arial" size="2">Ilan</font>