How do I installing PostgreSQL on Windows NT or Windows 2000?

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$Date: 2001/01/19 23:43:35 $

1. Install the Cygwin package.

The Cygwin package provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32

API. It is available at <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>.

The 1.1.x series is recommended (1.1.7 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

<http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/>.

Do not use versions prior to 1.04, they will not work.

3. Optional: The "Andy Piper Tools" at <http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/>

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: There are two issues with Cygwin's current UNIX domain socket

support:

1. psql (and other clients) will hang if postmaster is not running and

the socket file (e.g., /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) exists.

2. Cygwin's AF_UNIX sockets are really implemented as AF_INET sockets

so they are inherently insecure.

Problem reports can be sent to <pgsql-ports@postgresql.org>.