From: | Roman Kurmanowytsch <romank(at)infosys(dot)tuwien(dot)ac(dot)at> |
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To: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [ADMIN] Cannot install postgreSQL |
Date: | 2000-03-08 10:22:21 |
Message-ID: | Version.32.20000307203404.00dc2d70@193.170.75.21 |
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Ross,
Thanks for your reply.
>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.
Ouch.
After a long struggle with Cygwin I finally managed to start the postmaster
(I had to create a new symbolic link because the installed one doesn't work
- even with System-attribute set).
Thanks again for your help,
Roman
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Roman Kurmanowytsch
Vienna, Austria
e-mail: romank(at)infosys(dot)tuwien(dot)ac(dot)at
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