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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:39:12 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: initdb failed
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Jian Huang,

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:16:16PM -0500, Jian Huang wrote:
> This is the first time I tried to use PostgreSQL (on Windows 2000). I
> downloaded everything in binary by "Default" (and everything in Admin,
> Base, and Database). The Cygwin DLL version is 1.5.5-1 and the
> database is version 7.4.1.
> 
> Then I downloaded a binary version of cygipc-1.14-1 and did the
> following:
> (a) cd /
> (b) tar -jxvf cygipc-1.14-1.tar.bz2
> (c) ipc-daemon &
> 
> No matter what, whenever I tried to initialize PostgreSQL,  I always
> get the following error. Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

You did not read the README:

    http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.README

Specifically, the following:

    Regardless of the installation type, the first step is to start
    ipc-daemon2.  If ipc-daemon2 is not running or a version previous
    to 2.01-1 is running, then initdb and postmaster can fail with the
    error message:
    [snip]

Jason

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