Re: cygwin and postgresql

"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