| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Skeets <skillet3232(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PGSQL Crossroads |
| Date: | 2004-08-13 17:43:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20040813104035.F4124@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Skeets wrote:
> I'm at a crossroads with PGSQL. I want to use it with PHP to develop
> web databases as part of my job. I've developed using Access and
> Visual Basic, but I like the open source concept better and I like the
> features of PGSQL.
>
> Having said that, I've already burned a good 20 hours going through
> every tutorial I could find on the net to get PGSQL running under
> WinXP Home and met nothing but failure after failure.
>
> So I decided to install PGSQL 8-beta. That went fine.
>
> I checked out the documentation and it doesn't provide any information
> how to run the darn thing.
Unfortunately, the port is new (and in beta). Some of this is what the
beta is for. It's entirely possible that you're running into problems in
setup, incompatibilities or plain bugs.
Can you send specifically what you tried and what errors you got?
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