From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Roman Kurmanowytsch <romank(at)infosys(dot)tuwien(dot)ac(dot)at>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [ADMIN] Cannot install postgreSQL |
Date: | 2000-03-07 21:27:52 |
Message-ID: | 200003072127.VAA09339@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Roman Kurmanowytsch wrote:
>Postgres is different than postmaster. Although they're the same
>executable, you get different behavior based on the name it's invoked
>as. As postmaster, it's the daemon that serves incoming connections. As
>postgres, it starts up a 'backend' proceess that access the db files. So,
>yes, by running postgres.exe you _were_ trying to access the database
>romkur.
I thought maybe this was a weird feature of the Windows implementation,
which I have never seen; of course, the normal PostgreSQL frontend is
psql, not postgres. I think psql[.exe?] is what you should be running.
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