How to install on Windows?

hello

is there a human readable tutorial on how to install postgresql on windows
platforms? i have no clue what cygwin is, but when i download it, it
downloads a bunch of other stuff on my machine! how do i know what i have

to

choose in order to be able to install postgresql later?

thanks/erick

I currently trying to get it running on a nt box.
So far I've downloaded the postgress tar.gz file at
ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/unix/db/postgresql/binary/v7.0/NT/
and when trying to run postgres a complaint of a missing
cywin1.dll occured.

the dll can be found in the cygwin-1.3.1-1.tar.gz package on
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/late
st/cygwin/
or some other mirror site

Now I've got complaints about databases which don't exist.
So far that's all what I needed of cygwin

hth

People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT
using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using*
Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is
-- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the
toy without never ever reading any doc.

You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do RTFM !

WT Medewerker wrote:

hello

is there a human readable tutorial on how to install postgresql on windows
platforms? i have no clue what cygwin is, but when i download it, it
downloads a bunch of other stuff on my machine! how do i know what i have

to

choose in order to be able to install postgresql later?

thanks/erick

I currently trying to get it running on a nt box.
So far I've downloaded the postgress tar.gz file at
ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/unix/db/postgresql/binary/v7.0/NT/
and when trying to run postgres a complaint of a missing
cywin1.dll occured.

the dll can be found in the cygwin-1.3.1-1.tar.gz package on
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/late
st/cygwin/
or some other mirror site

Now I've got complaints about databases which don't exist.
So far that's all what I needed of cygwin

hth

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hi,

i am not sure if that helps, but thanks for responding!
did u successfully install the database? does it work
on your windows machine? i am not sure i understood
your response, but i would love to know what you did
- more specifically, exactly which files you downloaded?

thanks a lot/erick

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hi fabrice,

thanks for taking the time to write that. i have indeed read the manual
(however thin it is), and i have seen several postgresql sites, searched on
google/av/fast - but there is *nothing* that tells me what to do with the
cygwin thingie. i am sorry for being a newbie, but i would appreciate if you
could tell me what is "initb"?

alternatively, i would appreciate if you could tell me where i can find a
manual that i can RTFM. thanks! (or is it that i need to read 5000 websites
just to find out that the cygwin setup asks me even more questions that have
no help?)

i apologise for being stupid, but i have done my homework and am posting
here after doing all that. actually, i see the lack of an installable to be
an opportunity rather than a problem, and i would love to make a simple
installable for folks like me, but i need to understand how to get this
thing working on my own computer first!

thanks a lot/erick

"Fabrice Scemama" <fabrice@scemama.org> wrote in message
news:3AF33813.3FFFA3@scemama.org...

People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT
using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using*
Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is
-- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the
toy without never ever reading any doc.

You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do RTFM !

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Papadakis [mailto:erick_papadakis@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 9:13 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Re: Re: How to install on Windows?

hi fabrice,

thanks for taking the time to write that. i have indeed read
the manual
(however thin it is), and i have seen several postgresql
sites, searched on
google/av/fast - but there is *nothing* that tells me what to
do with the
cygwin thingie. i am sorry for being a newbie, but i would
appreciate if you
could tell me what is "initb"?

That's "initdb" There is a man page for it.

cygwin is a library that lets you build UNIX source on an MS Win
box. It should come with it's own docs.

Do you _really_ need to run under Windows?
Not many people use MS Win so there are not many who can help
you here.

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Albertson, Chris wrote:

From: Erick Papadakis [mailto:erick_papadakis@yahoo.com]

thanks for taking the time to write that. i have indeed read
the manual
(however thin it is), and i have seen several postgresql
sites, searched on
google/av/fast - but there is *nothing* that tells me what to
do with the
cygwin thingie. i am sorry for being a newbie, but i would
appreciate if you
could tell me what is "initb"?

That's "initdb" There is a man page for it.

cygwin is a library that lets you build UNIX source on an MS Win
box. It should come with it's own docs.

Do you _really_ need to run under Windows?
Not many people use MS Win so there are not many who can help
you here.

Sorry to second that, but, if you don't know what cygwin is,
or what initdb is, you probably shouldn't try to run anything
serious on PG-on-NT. If you want to play around a bit, or
have a chance to test what it feels like, that's fine,
but, IMHO, you should have a good grasp of how PG works in its
native environment -- Unix & Unix-like -- before trying
to install & use it under WinNT.

If you really need a Open Source database to run under WinNT,
and need it yesterday, you might be happier looking at Interbase
or MySQL. Both of them are out-of-the-box an easier install and better
supported under Windows. Interbase is fairly close to PG in the features
it offers.

Good luck,
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