X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44DE279B.2050705@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:10:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Older postgresql versions [changed] References: <5722793 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <44DA1EF8 DOT 7010408 AT x-ray DOT at> <44DAD730 DOT 4080207 AT x-ray DOT at> <5772970 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <44DDB954 DOT 4060305 AT x-ray DOT at> <5778314 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <5778314.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com alecswan wrote: >> The old one, which overwrites 8.x can be downloaded e.g. at >> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.5-1.tar.bz2 > > I am not sure what's the right way to install the tarball, so I just > unzipped it in the root folder. However, I am getting the following error > when running initdb: > > $ initdb -D /var/db/psql-7.4.5/data/ > The program > /usr/bin/postgres > needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.4.5, or > there may be a configuration problem. > > What am I doing wrong? Always install with 'setup.exe'. Never "just unzip" a file if you don't understand and/or aren't willing to endure the consequences. At this point, I'd recommend removing the files you unzipped and then uninstalling V8.x via 'setup.exe' and installing the mentioned tarball via 'setup.exe'. I don't know if this will resolve all your problems or not but it is a process that will put you back into the realm of a supported installation. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/