(This is the second time I send this, as the first message apparently did not 
make it)

Dr. Peter Voigt, 30.09.2010 14:42:
If there are no other users out there with comparable problems I could
give the ZIP-installer a try under:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
There is a file postgresql-9.0.0-1-windows_x64-binaries.zip. I did not
yet try this because I am new to PostgreSQL.

It's actually not that hard ;)

You first need to create a "datadirectory" using "initdb.exe"
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-initdb.html

Make sure the user account under which the server will be running has full 
(write) access to that directory.

For me it is enough to run
initdb" -D "/path/to/datadir" --lc-messages=English -U postgres E UTF8 -A md5

- how to start the database from the command line,
Once the data directory has been created, simply use pg_ctl:

pg_ctl -D "/path/to/datadir" start
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pg-ctl.html


- how to setup the PostgreSQL service from the command line,
pg_ctl -D "/path/to/your/datadir" register
(see the above link to the manual)

- what registry entries are required.
None.
If you can answer the above three questions (each with one sentence),
I will immediately start installation and tests, because I hope - from
my short but good PostgreSQL 9.0 experiences under Linux - that just
the installer fails on my system but not the database system itself.

I have put the above statements in some very simple batch files to be able to 
easily repeat these steps


Regards
Thomas




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