| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Turner, John J" <JJTurner(at)statestreet(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "List, Postgres" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: installing from source in Windows |
| Date: | 2010-10-19 04:22:33 |
| Message-ID: | 4CBD1D09.8040206@postnewspapers.com.au |
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On 19/10/10 11:58, Turner, John J wrote:
> I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source
> files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install.
Hmm, ok. Thanks for the heads-up, then. "Winzip mangles tar archives"
goes into the list of possible fault causes...
> So, now it's a hot mess of something - looks a far cry from the binary
> version I originally downloaded, but supposedly it's installed
Yep. It's really quite easy to use the installs built from source or
obtained as a binary zip, thankfully. You use initdb to create a data
directory, then pg_ctl to start the server once initdb has run. initdb
even prints out the pg_ctl command to use.
Installing it as a Windows service is a bit trickier, though.
--
Craig Ringer
Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/
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