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hi everyone,

here is what happens when i try to run initdb after installing postgresql under nt:

$>initdb --username=Postgres

We are initializing the database system with username Postgres (uid=1005).
This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.

Creating Postgres database system directory d:\usr\local\pgsql\data

Creating Postgres database system directory d:\usr\local\pgsql\data/base

Creating template database in d:\usr\local\pgsql\data/base/template1
ERROR:  mdopen: couldn't open d:\usr\local\pgsql\data/pg_variable: No such file or directory
ERROR:  mdopen: couldn't open d:\usr\local\pgsql\data/pg_variable: No such file or directory
...............

and the last ERROR lines are repeated endlessly until i manually stop the process. same thing if i try with another
validusername. the data, base, and template1 directories are created and also the first two pg_* files in template1,
butapparently it doesn't continue  because it cannot create pg_class. here is what i have in lib and bin: 

$>ls /usr/local/pgsql/lib

total 2458
247 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone   505481 Dec 11 23:10 ecpg.dll
  1 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone      696 Dec 11 23:10 global1.bki.source
  0 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone        0 Dec 11 23:10 global1.description
  8 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone    14522 Dec 11 23:10 libecpg.a
945 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone  1934912 Dec 11 23:10 libpostgres.a
 34 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone    67942 Dec 11 23:10 libpq++.a
 39 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone    77886 Dec 11 23:10 libpq.a
 85 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone   172870 Dec 11 23:10 local1_template1.bki.source
 12 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone    22583 Dec 11 23:10 local1_template1.description
  2 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone     3407 Dec 11 23:10 pg_geqo.sample
  3 -r--r--r--   1 postgres everyone     5192 Dec 11 23:10 pg_hba.conf.sample
336 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone   686244 Dec 11 23:10 plpgsql.dll
453 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone   927681 Dec 11 23:10 pq++.dll
293 -rw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone   598785 Dec 11 23:10 pq.dll


$>ls /usr/local/pgsql/bin

total 3506
  1 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     1065 Dec 11 23:10 cleardbdir
  2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     2505 Dec 11 23:10 createdb
  3 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     4227 Dec 11 23:10 createlang
  3 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     4658 Dec 11 23:10 createuser
  1 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     1602 Dec 11 23:10 destroydb
  2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     2951 Dec 11 23:10 destroylang
  2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     3757 Dec 11 23:10 destroyuser
338 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   691023 Dec 11 23:10 ecpg.exe
  9 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone    17471 Dec 11 23:10 initdb
  2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     3743 Dec 11 23:10 initlocation

  1 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone      259 Dec 11 23:10 ipcclean
217 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   443730 Dec 11 23:10 pg_dump.exe
  1 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     1803 Dec 11 23:10 pg_dumpall
155 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   316368 Dec 11 23:10 pg_id.exe
165 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   336531 Dec 11 23:10 pg_passwd.exe
  2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     2251 Dec 11 23:10 pg_upgrade
158 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   321557 Dec 11 23:10 pg_version.exe
2196 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone  4496147 Dec 11 23:10 postgres.exe
  1 lrw-r--r--   1 postgres everyone       23 Dec 11 23:10 postmaster -> postgres.exe
246 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone   503445 Dec 11 23:10 psql.exe
  1 -r-xr-xr-x   1 postgres everyone     1956 Dec 11 23:10 vacuumdb

when i installed postgresql, configure, make, and make install seemed to execute without any serious incident, i sent
theiroutput to .log files and checked them out with "cat *.log | grep Error" to make sure everything went fine. i also
checkedthe environment with check_cygwin_setup.sh, the /etc/passwd file (local) was created. 


may i ask the pros three questions:

(1) why can't i run initdb?

(2) i have winnt 4.0 with service pack 6, cygwin-b20.1, and the postgresql-6.5.3  (egcs-1.1) : is there anythyng wrong
withthis configuration? 

(3) why initdb --username=jkr, as indicated in the winnt install readme and update post? why not just initdb
--username=postgres;and, finally, 

(4) are both the Cygwin32 IPC package by Ludovic LANGE and cygwin32_ipc-1.03.tar.gz necessary? it seems to me that I
canstart ipc-daemon without the latter package but maybe i'm wrong (or maybe it's already there, from the cygwin
installation,and i don't know it). 

thank you very much for any help you can provide.

laurentiu



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