postgres help

[Jason House]

Well, deleting cygipc's temporary files in /tmp did the trick without 
any uninstalls.  (The specific files are listed in the postgres readme)

Jonathan Simms wrote:
> I believe so. Anytime there could possibly be a version conflict, I usually
> opt to only have one version installed. Even though it says that the two can
> work side-by-side, I'd uninstall 2.x, install 1.14-1, get it working, then
> (if you're brave) see if you can have both versions installed together.
> 
> I haven't noticed any drawbacks to having 1.14-1 instead of 2.x, but then
> again, I may not be using anything that *relies* on 2.x.
> 
> Let me know how it works out for you.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason House" <jhouse@mitre.org>
> To: "Jonathan Simms" <jonathan@embassynetworks.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:51 AM
> Subject: Re: postgres help
> 
> 
> 
>>I did get 1.14-1 from the site, but did not uninstall 2.x.  Could that
>>be causing a problem?
>>
>>Jonathan Simms wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Oh, one more thing, I found that the latest version of cygipc (2.x)
> 
> didn't
> 
>>>work for me, initdb would fail every time. If this happens, download the
>>>1.14-1 version of cygipc
>>>
>>>
> 
> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/cygipc-1.14-1.tar.
> 
>>>bz2
>>>
>>>uninstall the 2.x version and install the above version.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Jason House" <jhouse@mitre.org>
>>>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>; <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
>>>Cc: <jason@tishler.net>
>>>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:12 PM
>>>Subject: postgres help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've gone through all the steps to set up postgreSQL on windows XP.  I
>>>>have updated permissions (to /tmp /usr/bin /usr/bin/*), verified the
>>>>system path variable, and verified that ipc and postmaster services have
>>>>been started.  I don't understand why I'm getting the following error:
>>>>
>>>>$ psql -U postgres template1
>>>>psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>>>>        Is the server running locally and accepting
>>>>        connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>>>>
>>>>The error does not change if I log in as myself or as postgres.
>>>>Any hints as to what to try would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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