Thread: PostgreSQL Easy NT attempt
Hi, all!
For those of us who need to do such weird things as run PostgreSQL on
Windows, I tried to create a 'easy to use' one ZIP file installation.
This install is biased towards a 'I just need a DBMS' on NT approach.
You can find the Readme and archive on ftp://129.247.113.222
Greetings,
Joerg Hessdoerfer
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NT4 sp4 Unzipped to c:\ Got the following error for install.bat... bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! Please specify your database directory (the directory where your databases should be) in the form x/folder1/.../lastfolder where "x" is your drive letter, and "/folder1/.../lastfolder" are slash "/" separated directories. Example: if your DB should be in "G:\PostgreSQL\data" you would specify "g/PostgreSQL/data" DB path> Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote: > Hi, all! > > For those of us who need to do such weird things as run PostgreSQL on > Windows, I tried to create a 'easy to use' one ZIP file installation. > > This install is biased towards a 'I just need a DBMS' on NT approach. > > You can find the Readme and archive on ftp://129.247.113.222 > > Greetings, > Joerg Hessdoerfer > > +------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+ > | | > | Joerg Hessdoerfer | > | Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 | > | S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 | > | D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com | > | http://www.sea-gmbh.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Ok, continued story... I created a c:\tmp dir and reran install.bat. Ok now it created setpath.bat. When I ran initdb.bat I got the following error... This database system will be initialized with username "bartletr". This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process. Creating database system directory /cygdrive/exit mkdir: cannot make directory `/cygdrive/exit': No such file or directory initdb failed. Removing /cygdrive/exit. Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.1022. Press any key to continue . . . Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote: > Hi, all! > > For those of us who need to do such weird things as run PostgreSQL on > Windows, I tried to create a 'easy to use' one ZIP file installation. > > This install is biased towards a 'I just need a DBMS' on NT approach. > > You can find the Readme and archive on ftp://129.247.113.222 > > Greetings, > Joerg Hessdoerfer > > +------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+ > | | > | Joerg Hessdoerfer | > | Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 | > | S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 | > | D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com | > | http://www.sea-gmbh.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Hi! At 08:46 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: >NT4 sp4 >Unzipped to c:\ >Got the following error for install.bat... > >bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! OOoops - I forgot to mkdir/export /tmp - will be fixed shortly. >Please specify your database directory >(the directory where your databases should be) >in the form x/folder1/.../lastfolder >where "x" is your drive letter, and "/folder1/.../lastfolder" are >slash "/" separated directories. >Example: if your DB should be in "G:\PostgreSQL\data" you would >specify "g/PostgreSQL/data" >DB path> At 08:58 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: >Creating database system directory /cygdrive/exit >mkdir: cannot make directory `/cygdrive/exit': No such file or directory What did you specify to above question? (The 'DB path>' prompt?) "exit"? You should give it some meaningful path, e.g. "c/database", where "c" is the drive letter. Greetings, Joe +------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+ | | | Joerg Hessdoerfer | | Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 | | S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 | | D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com | | http://www.sea-gmbh.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote: > Hi! > > At 08:46 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: > >NT4 sp4 > >Unzipped to c:\ > >Got the following error for install.bat... > > > >bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! > > OOoops - I forgot to mkdir/export /tmp - will be fixed shortly. > > >Please specify your database directory > >(the directory where your databases should be) > >in the form x/folder1/.../lastfolder > >where "x" is your drive letter, and "/folder1/.../lastfolder" are > >slash "/" separated directories. > >Example: if your DB should be in "G:\PostgreSQL\data" you would > >specify "g/PostgreSQL/data" > >DB path> > > At 08:58 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: > >Creating database system directory /cygdrive/exit > >mkdir: cannot make directory `/cygdrive/exit': No such file or directory I ran initdb.bat, the above was the result. I "did not" get a DB path> prompt. > > > What did you specify to above question? (The 'DB path>' prompt?) "exit"? > You should give it some meaningful path, e.g. "c/database", where "c" is > the drive letter. > > Greetings, Joe > > +------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+ > | | > | Joerg Hessdoerfer | > | Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 | > | S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 | > | D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com | > | http://www.sea-gmbh.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
This might be a stupid question but, is it assumed that a user already has cygwin installed? Because I don't!!! Fredrick Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote: > Hi! > > At 08:46 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: > >NT4 sp4 > >Unzipped to c:\ > >Got the following error for install.bat... > > > >bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! > > OOoops - I forgot to mkdir/export /tmp - will be fixed shortly. > > >Please specify your database directory > >(the directory where your databases should be) > >in the form x/folder1/.../lastfolder > >where "x" is your drive letter, and "/folder1/.../lastfolder" are > >slash "/" separated directories. > >Example: if your DB should be in "G:\PostgreSQL\data" you would > >specify "g/PostgreSQL/data" > >DB path> > > At 08:58 15.08.00 -0700, you wrote: > >Creating database system directory /cygdrive/exit > >mkdir: cannot make directory `/cygdrive/exit': No such file or directory > > What did you specify to above question? (The 'DB path>' prompt?) "exit"? > You should give it some meaningful path, e.g. "c/database", where "c" is > the drive letter. > > Greetings, Joe > > +------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+ > | | > | Joerg Hessdoerfer | > | Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 | > | S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 | > | D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com | > | http://www.sea-gmbh.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+
At 08:08 16.08.00 -0700, you wrote:
>This might be a stupid question but, is it assumed that a user already has
>cygwin installed? Because I don't!!!
>
>Fredrick
No, of course not - this is what this is all about. This distro contains
all necessary
files from cygwin (and some more).
See my private e-mail, what went wrong with your setup.
Greetings,
Joerg
+------**** Science & Engineering Applications GmbH ****------+
| |
| Joerg Hessdoerfer |
| Leading SW developer Phone: +49 (0)2203-962211 |
| S.E.A GmbH Fax: -962212 |
| D-51147 Koeln Internet: joerg.hessdoerfer@sea-gmbh.com |
| http://www.sea-gmbh.com |
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