I tried to install PostgreSQL, the 7.5 binary development night-build (since I can’t build it from source). The basic procedure is:<\/p>\n
Let’s wait a while until 7.5 with the real Windows installer is there. In some online documents I read that this Windows support was supposed to be included in version 7.4 already. But hey, who cares about tons of users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tried to install PostgreSQL, the 7.5 binary development night-build (since I can’t build it from source). The basic procedure is: – Unzip in directory, let’s assume C:PostgreSQL – Add C:PostgreSQLBin and C:PostgreSQLlib to PATH – Add environmentvariable PGDATA and have it point to C:PostgreSQLData – Now start the following command: initdb -L “C:\/postgresql\/share” First […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-microsoft","category-software","category-5-id","category-45-id","category-27-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}- Unzip in directory, let's assume C:PostgreSQL
\n- Add C:PostgreSQLBin and C:PostgreSQLlib to PATH
\n- Add environmentvariable PGDATA and have it point to C:PostgreSQLData
\n- Now start the following command: initdb -L \"C:\/postgresql\/share\"
\n<\/code>
\nFirst problem encountered: PostgreSQL won’t run as admin. So I created a limited-user (I’m using Windows XP Pro) and logged in as that user. The init-command now crashes with an unhandled exception. Can’t see what it is, or what to do about it. Just a message that somebody is sorry for the inconvenience (you know what I’m talking about!).<\/p>\n