On 19/10/10 11:58, Turner, John J wrote: > I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source > files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install. Hmm, ok. Thanks for the heads-up, then. "Winzip mangles tar archives" goes into the list of possible fault causes... > So, now it's a hot mess of something - looks a far cry from the binary > version I originally downloaded, but supposedly it's installed Yep. It's really quite easy to use the installs built from source or obtained as a binary zip, thankfully. You use initdb to create a data directory, then pg_ctl to start the server once initdb has run. initdb even prints out the pg_ctl command to use. Installing it as a Windows service is a bit trickier, though. -- Craig Ringer Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
