Re: Manual installation of PostgreSQL 8

[frank church <pgsql(at)adontendev(dot)net>]

Quoting John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>:

On trying to install cygwin I realised that there was postmaster service left
over from installing cygwin postgres before.

I tried a few more times, and realised that the postgres user rights to the data
folder were not being set properly in cygwin. So I tried an initdb on a postgres
user folder, and that failed because of some /dev/null error related to recent
changes in cygwin.dll.

The only saving grace of the cygwin version was the fact that because the initdb
is written in shell language it was possible to see where the command that
failed was and fix it.

But alas the postmaster core dumped everytime I try to start.

I think what is more important for the pginstaller group is probably a
specification of the necessary conditions required for all the various steps of
the installation and configuration to succeed, the steps required and how they
can be implemented, and examples of how they can be implemented in various
scripting languages. I am sure that a general purpose language could have
spotted that the postmaster service existed and was configured differently and
warned me at that stage.