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Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:17:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin
- References: <45F4CF61.2030108@lists.cichon.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Public Mailing Lists wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a Postgresql server on Windows-XP/Cygwin. I've done
> this a couple of times on Linux, and I'm experiencing some difficulties
> on Windows.
>
> I have installed the packages postgresql (version 8.0.7-1) and
> cygrunserv (version 1.17-1), and I have syslog and init running.
>
> If I'm trying to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql initdb, and I'm getting
> the following error messages:
"Bad system call" usually indicates that you need cygserver installed
and running. And reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-*.README
confirms this. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README for details.
Brian
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