Apologies in advance as I'm compelled to resurrect this topic: I've posted my latest issue to the novice list (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2010-10/msg00137.php) .. to no avail And just to re-state the issue - "make check" doesn't work as it fails to start the Postmaster (within 60 seconds). After doing some homework, my hunch is that I need to translate "su" type Unix commands into something the MSYS bash interface can understand in order to be running the tests under a proper "unprivileged" user account... I tried running the bash using several different variations of the "runas" command, again to no avail. So I'll be much obliged for any further advice or suggestions - even if only to let me know whether I might be way off base or need to do some more homework. Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:23 AM To: Turner, John J Cc: List, Postgres Subject: Re: installing from source in Windows 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
