On 1 March 2018 at 00:31, PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/install-windows-full.html > Description: > > Hi, > I am not very experienced and some of these corrections may be trivial or > childish. > > I have been following the steps for "Building with Visual C++ or the > Microsoft Windows SDK" for 9.6. using Visual Studio 2015. > Everything was pretty straightforward aside from a few things: > > - I didn't find a config.pl file and wasn't sure if I created it what > exactly to put in it (I thought about copy/paste from the > "config_default.pl" but decided not to). Instead I added all the required > libraries to the system PATH. > It wouldn't hurt to spell that out explicitly, though I would've assumed it was implied by the filename and presence of a config_default.pl . Please send a docs patch. > > - After having successfully run "build" and "install" I was having issues > running the regression tests. "vcregress check" ran fine but after that I > kept getting this error: > ----------------------------------------------------- > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) > Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting > TCP/IP connections on port 5432? > ------------------------------------------------------ > Obviously, there was no server running. But I was never instructed to > create > a data directory or user, and run "initDB" and "pgstl Start" before this > step. I think that should be added somewhere between to avoid confusion. (I > may be completely wrong and have missed some step somewhere) > vcregress check should create a temporary datadir and start a temporary server. If it fails to do so, there's something wrong with your setup. It's likely this is related to the missing config.pl . vcregress installcheck (different command) requires an existing running server. But that's not what you ran. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
