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From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:29:30 +0000
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+Installing PostgreSQL on Windows NT or Windows 2000
+===================================================
+$Date: 2000/10/17 03:29:30 $
+
+1. Install the Cygwin package.
+
+ The Cygwin package provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32
+ API. It is available at .
+ The 1.1.x series is recommended (1.1.4 was the latest at the time
+ of this writing); using 1.0 or B20 might require extra efforts.
+ For B20 you also need to download the separate crypt library at the
+ same location.
+
+2. Install the cygipc package, available at
+ . Do not use versions
+ prior to 1.04, they will not work.
+
+3. Optional: The "Andy Piper Tools" at
+ are a collection of pre-compiled libraries and utilities that you
+ might find useful -- especially on Cygwin B20.
+
+4. The Cygwin bin directory has to be placed in the path before the
+ Windows program directories, because the sort.exe has to be taken
+ from Cygwin, not Windows.
+
+5. Start `ipc-daemon &' (background process) from the cygipc package.
+ This program needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL
+ server (postmaster).
+
+6. Proceed according to the INSTALL file. (./configure; make; etc.)
+
+NOTE: By default, PostgreSQL clients like psql communicate using Unix
+domain sockets, which do not work on Windows. Start the postmaster
+with -i, and when connecting to the database from a client, set the
+PGHOST environment variable to `localhost' or supply the hostname on
+the command line.
+
+Problem reports can be sent to .
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