How to install PostgreSQL on Windows NT or Windows 2000
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-$Date: 2001/04/24 20:05:02 $
+$Date: 2001/05/11 22:26:30 $
1. Install the Cygwin package.
<http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/>.
Do not use versions prior to 1.04, they will not work.
-3. Optional: The "Andy Piper Tools" at <http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/>
- are a collection of pre-compiled libraries and utilities that you
- might find useful -- especially on Cygwin B20.
-
-4. The Cygwin bin directory has to be placed in the path before the
+3. The Cygwin bin directory has to be placed in the path before the
Windows program directories, because the sort.exe has to be taken
from Cygwin, not Windows.
-5. Start ipc-daemon from the cygipc package. Use "net start ipc-daemon",
+4. Start ipc-daemon from the cygipc package. Use "net start ipc-daemon",
if ipc-daemon is installed as a service; otherwise, use "ipc-daemon &".
This program needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL
server (postmaster).
-6. Proceed according to the INSTALL file. (./configure; make; etc.)
+5. Proceed according to the INSTALL file. (./configure; make; etc.)
NOTE: The following are known issues with PostgreSQL on Windows:
overflowing the listen() backlog queue which causes connection
refused errors.
-Problem reports can be sent to <pgsql-ports@postgresql.org>.
+Problem reports can be sent to <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>.