Brian,
In the future, please post to pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org instead of
sending private email so others can benefit too.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Brian Rak wrote:
> I am trying to get PostgresQL to work on my Win2K box running Cygwin, and I
> wonder if you would be so kind as to help me. I got your address from: http://
> www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?supported-platforms.html.
Hmm...
> The problem I'm having is that when I run initdb, everything looks good until
> the fifth line. Here's what I get:
>
> Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata
> Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/base
> Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/global
> Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/pg_xlog
> Creating template1 database in /usr/lib/pgdata/base/1
>
> At this line, my system hangs and a look at the Task Manager reveals that the
> process Postgres.exe is consuming all my processor resources. If you hae any
> ideas at all, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks so much for your time.
Did you attempt to search the pgsql-cygwin mailing list archive? If so,
then you would have found many answers to your question such as the
following:
http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1031506
Jason