Ravi,
Please post to <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org> instead of sending private
email.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:02:32PM +0530, ravi(hotmail) wrote:
> hi jatson,
> This is Ravi Shankar, i am working on a project using postgresql database
> server, I have installed cygwin with postgresql database server. but the
> database is not getting initilised.
> i tryed as below.
>
> as administrator Created directory.
> $ /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> now typed the command to initilise the database as follows.
>
> & initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "Administrator".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> Fixing permissions on existing directory /lib/postgresql/data... ok
> creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /lib/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> creating template1 database in /lib/postgresql/data/base/1...
>
> and the process hangs it goes in to infinite loop...
> hoping for an early responce, please...
You forgot to start ipc-daemon. Please read the README:
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.2.1.README
Jason