I installed the latest versino of cygwin which includes postgresql. I'm having a problem with initdb hanging.
Here's a copy of what I'm doing:
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$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
This database system will be initialized with username "Greg
This user will own all the data files and must also own the
Creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data
Creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base
Creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global
Creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog
Creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1
Make sure that ipc-daemon is running.
Regards, Dave.