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Subject: Re: "Bad system call" error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)
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On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote:
> > > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564:  3312 Bad system call         "$PGPATH"/postgres
> >
> > Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README?
>
> I wonder if this has become sufficiently frequent to merit addition to the
> FAQ.  I've seen this question in various forms at least 4 times in the
> past three months (with two of those relating to PostgreSQL)...

It's a good idea. Anyone want to suggest some wording?

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