Re: Postgres: Installing as a service

CM J wrote on 13.04.2009 07:48:
> Hi ,
>
>        I have extracted postgres from postgres-noinstaller.zip file. How
> do i install postgres as  a service from cmd line ? Are there are any
> binaries provided by postgres to install it as a service ? Please note
> that i am aware that msi installer automatically does all this. I want
> to know how to acheive the same from  the postgres db extracted from the
> zip file.
>
> Thanks.


Use "pg_ctl register" (after you have created the postgres windows user as
described by John)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pg-ctl.html