PostgreSQL, getting it up

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 22 20:39, d. henman wrote:
> Marco, thanks for the direction. ($ cygrunsrv.exe -S cygserver )
> 
> I might have tried $ cygrunsrv -s server   (without the cyg prefix)
> 
> According to: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql.README
>   " cygrunsrv is not required anymore, pg_ctl has now the service
> functions included.
>      cygserver must run as service, CYGWIN must contain server."
> 
> That phrase "cygrunsrv is not required anymore"  threw me off.
> So the above is wrong in that it is needed to start cygserver.
> And the environment variable CYGWIN needs to contain the text, "server" in it.

CYGWIN="server" is old and not needed anymore:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-removed-options


Corinna

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