"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> writes:
> I have installed postgresql in cygwin on a MS-WinXPpro system. I
> wish to initialise a database instance. However, I cannot find any
> program file called initdb. In /usr/bin I can see files like:
> pg_config.exe, pg_dump.exe and pg_dumpall.exe but no initdb.exe
> anywhere. Is there something about initdb that I do not understand
> or some reason why it would not form part of the cygwin
> installation?
That sounds suspiciously like a client-only installation. What
package did you install exactly? Was there a -server package
beside it?
regards, tom lane