postgresql - Cannot initialize new Postgres database on Cygwin - Super User

[Marco Atzeri]

On 11/01/2017 23:02, Chloe wrote:
> When I try to initialize a new database, I get an error:
>
>     $ /usr/sbin/pg_ctl init
>     no data was returned by command ""/usr/sbin/initdb.exe" -V"
>     The program "initdb" is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the
>     same directory as "/usr/sbin/pg_ctl".
>     Check your installation.
>
>     $ /usr/sbin/initdb.exe -V
>     initdb (PostgreSQL) 9.6.1
>
>     $ "/usr/sbin/initdb.exe" -V
>     initdb (PostgreSQL) 9.6.1
>
>     $ /usr/sbin/initdb.exe -D /usr/share/postgresql
>     no data was returned by command ""/usr/sbin/postgres.exe" -V"
>     The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
>     same directory as "/usr/sbin/initdb".
>     Check your installation.
>
>     $ /usr/sbin/postgres -V
>     postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.6.1
>
> Cygwin 2.6.1, Postgres 9.6.1
>
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/1166177/cannot-initialize-new-postgres-database-on-cygwin
>

Inizialization works for me

$ cygrunsrv -S cygserver

$ /usr/sbin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "marco".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are disabled.

creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 30
selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB
selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... sysv
creating configuration files ... ok
running bootstrap script ... ok
performing post-bootstrap initialization ... ok
syncing data to disk ... ok

WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or
--auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb.

Success. You can now start the database server using:

     pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start

$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start
server starting

$ psql -l
                               List of databases
    Name    | Owner | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    | Access 
privileges
-----------+-------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------------
  postgres  | marco | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
  template0 | marco | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/marco 
      +
            |       |          |             |             | marco=CTc/marco
  template1 | marco | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/marco 
      +
            |       |          |             |             | marco=CTc/marco
(3 rows)


can you provide your cygcheck.out ?
https://www.cygwin.com/problems.html

Regards
Marco





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