Subject: Re: initdb and postgres both no longer work...
From: Jason Tishler <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:52:13 -0400

Reini,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:07:39PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> BTW:
> /usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.4.3/FAQ_MSWIN
> still has the wrong docs, talking about ipc-daemon2.
> This should be fixed upstream, and in the CYGWIN-PATCH if not.

See attached.

Jason

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Subject: FAQ_MSWIN patch
From: Jason Tishler <[email-masked]>
To: Pgsql-Patches <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:33:25 -0400

As per the following:

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2004-07/msg00090.php

Thanks,
Jason

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Index: FAQ_MSWIN
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/FAQ_MSWIN,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 FAQ_MSWIN
--- FAQ_MSWIN	28 Nov 2003 20:22:18 -0000	1.19
+++ FAQ_MSWIN	20 Jul 2004 11:22:08 -0000
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ adjust these instructions accordingly.
 3.  Once the download and install process is complete, open a Cygwin
     shell and do the following for a basic installation:
 
-    3a.  Start ipc-daemon2 for shared memory support.  To do this,
-         enter the command "ipc-daemon2 &".  This program
+    3a.  Start cygserver for shared memory support.  To do this,
+         enter the command "/usr/sbin/cygserver &".  This program
          needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL server
          (postmaster) or initialize a database (initdb).
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ adjust these instructions accordingly.
 
 4.  You are now running a PostgreSQL server on your Windows machine.
 
-5.  It is possible to install ipc-daemon2 and the postmaster as
+5.  It is possible to install cygserver and the postmaster as
     Windows NT services.  For information on how to do this, please
     refer to the README document included with Cygwin PostgreSQL.  It
     is installed in the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin directory.
@@ -95,4 +95,8 @@ Known issues
 
     (On some systems you can have up to about 10 simultaneous connections).
 
+3.  The default cygserver configuration may need to be changed (e.g.,
+    increase SEMMNS) to prevent PostgreSQL from failing due to a lack of
+    system resources.
+
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