Missing steps for "Building with Visual C++ or the Microsoft Windows SDK"
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/install-windows-full.html
Description:
Hi,
I am not very experienced and some of these corrections may be trivial or
childish.
I have been following the steps for "Building with Visual C++ or the
Microsoft Windows SDK" for 9.6. using Visual Studio 2015.
Everything was pretty straightforward aside from a few things:
- I didn't find a config.pl file and wasn't sure if I created it what
exactly to put in it (I thought about copy/paste from the
"config_default.pl" but decided not to). Instead I added all the required
libraries to the system PATH.
- After having successfully run "build" and "install" I was having issues
running the regression tests. "vcregress check" ran fine but after that I
kept getting this error:
-----------------------------------------------------
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
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Obviously, there was no server running. But I was never instructed to create
a data directory or user, and run "initDB" and "pgstl Start" before this
step. I think that should be added somewhere between to avoid confusion. (I
may be completely wrong and have missed some step somewhere)
Thanks
Michael
On 1 March 2018 at 00:31, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/install-windows-full.html
Description:Hi,
I am not very experienced and some of these corrections may be trivial or
childish.I have been following the steps for "Building with Visual C++ or the
Microsoft Windows SDK" for 9.6. using Visual Studio 2015.
Everything was pretty straightforward aside from a few things:- I didn't find a config.pl file and wasn't sure if I created it what
exactly to put in it (I thought about copy/paste from the
"config_default.pl" but decided not to). Instead I added all the required
libraries to the system PATH.
It wouldn't hurt to spell that out explicitly, though I would've assumed it
was implied by the filename and presence of a config_default.pl .
Please send a docs patch.
- After having successfully run "build" and "install" I was having issues
running the regression tests. "vcregress check" ran fine but after that I
kept getting this error:
-----------------------------------------------------
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
------------------------------------------------------
Obviously, there was no server running. But I was never instructed to
create
a data directory or user, and run "initDB" and "pgstl Start" before this
step. I think that should be added somewhere between to avoid confusion. (I
may be completely wrong and have missed some step somewhere)
vcregress check should create a temporary datadir and start a temporary
server. If it fails to do so, there's something wrong with your setup. It's
likely this is related to the missing config.pl .
vcregress installcheck (different command) requires an existing running
server. But that's not what you ran.
--
Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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