Re: Install from Source On Windows - University of Sydney Research

Hey Craig

I am doing a research project on a particular branch of postgreSQL and we
have already had some code written on top of 8.2.4 base release few years
back. I am doing some extensions to it. So thats the reason of not using the
latest releases. There would be lot of extra patching etc.

I mean when i run src\tools\msvc\install.pl DESTINATION DIRECTORY, I do get
3 folder with 3 exe's in the bin directory.

So is there a script on wondows I can run to fireoff postmaster then load
the new DB and connect via pgADMIN ?

Many thanks.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Craig
> Ringer<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:25 +1000, Kushal Vaghani wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have downloaded and built the 8.2.4 postgreSQL from source. This was
> >> done by running the build.bat file under src\tools\msvc. I do get a
> >> few errors with some contrib projects, but I do not care about them.
> >
> > Why such an ancient version? Rapid improvements have been made in
> > PostgreSQL's Windows support, and you'll have much better results with
> > 8.4 or even 8.3 .
>
> At the very least the most up to date version of 8.2, which is WAY
> higher than .4
>