That's a shame... I think it would be a great improvement to have PG able
to run as a service. It would open up pg to be a usable database for a lot
of people who currently find it too hard to setup. I don't know if MySQL
runs as a service, but I know it has a clean windows setup, and does not
require the user to install cygwin first. A similar setup for postgre would
be fabulous also. This ability on Windows would help a lot of people who
are in mixed environments. I know we are and it would help us.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Yankowski [SMTP:fred@ontosys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: microx_2000@yahoo.com
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Re: startup Postgres on NT
>
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0700, microx_2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 2. How to startup postgres with NT startup?
>
> The (klugey) procedure I used to setup up PostgreSQL as an NT service
> is documented in
> <http://www.ontosys.com/reports/postgresql.html>
>
> I've since patched a version of ipc-daemon so that it can install and
> run itself directly as an NT service.
>
> I've also thought about hacking postgres to run directly as an NT
> service, but that plan got only a tepid response when I proposed it to
> the 'hackers' list, so I'm shelving it for now.
>
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