Re: initdb doesn't work with cygwin 1.3.1?

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:50:45PM +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> PostgreSQL 7.1 now is part of the Cygwin "Unix on Win32" Toolkit. A terrific
> development, because it takes away lots of fuss trying to get Postgres to
> work on Win2000.
> 
> However, when running "initdb" the script hangs, without any indication of
> an error. Therefore I don't have a data-dir to run postmaster with.
> Did anyone encounter this problem? And if so, what is the solution.

I just set such a thing up.  Make sure ipc-daemon.exe is running first
and either export PGDATA or use the "-D /path/to/data" directive.

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>