On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, James B. Byrne<byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> This may not be the right place for this question but I am going to
> start here anyway.
>
> I have installed postgresql in cygwin on a MS-WinXPpro system. I
> wish to initialise a database instance. However, I cannot find any
> program file called initdb. In /usr/bin I can see files like:
> pg_config.exe, pg_dump.exe and pg_dumpall.exe but no initdb.exe
> anywhere. Is there something about initdb that I do not understand
> or some reason why it would not form part of the cygwin
> installation?
Is there a reason you're not using the native windows postgresql packages?