How to install PostgreSQL on Windows

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$Date: 2003/11/13 03:53:00 $

$Date: 2003/11/28 20:22:18 $

PostgreSQL requires the appropriate subset of Cygwin DLLs to be

PostgreSQL requires the appropriate subset of Cygwin DLLs to be

installed in order that it functions under Windows.

This document assumes that you do not have Cygwin already installed

2. Proceed through the Cygwin install wizard. Choose 'Install from

Internet', specify a Local Package Directory and choose a mirror

site that's close to you. Answer the other installer questions

appropriately for your configuration.

appropriately for your configuration.

When you come to the point of choosing which packages to install,

expand the 'Database' section and click 'Skip' next to PostgreSQL

3. Once the download and install process is complete, open a Cygwin

shell and do the following for a basic installation:

3a. Start ipc-daemon2 for shared memory support. To do this,

enter the command "ipc-daemon2 &". This program

needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL server

3a. Start ipc-daemon2 for shared memory support. To do this,

enter the command "ipc-daemon2 &". This program

needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL server

(postmaster) or initialize a database (initdb).

3b. Use the initdb command to create a new database cluster. An

example command would be:

initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -W -E LATIN1

initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -W -E LATIN1

Which will create a cluster in the /usr/local/pgsql/data

directory, will prompt for a superuser password and will

3c. Start up the postmaster. Use a command similar to the

following:

postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

This will start the postmaster, and if successful you will

see some initial log entries, and an entry "LOG: database

2. "make check" can generate spurious regression test failures due to

overflowing the listen() backlog queue which causes connection

refused errors or hangs. You can limit the number of connections

refused errors or hangs. You can limit the number of connections

using the MAX_CONNECTIONS option thus:

make MAX_CONNECTIONS=5 check