Painless PostgreSQL Windows Install Package

Fri Apr 15 14:52:23 EDT 2005

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That's the right file.  That zip file extracts to two .msi files; one 
with a "-int" in the name, and one without.  Double-click the one 
without in order to start the installation.  The other needs to be 
there (most of the actual content is in that one), but don't try to 
start it directly.

On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Typing80wpm at aol.com wrote:

> Please let me know what you think of this, if someone is familiar, 
> before I
> install it. Thanks!
> Here is where google has finally lead me in my quest for a windows  
> installer
> for postgreSQL. Good Lord! Why is it that unix/linux type people find  
> it
> challenging to speak in plain English.  I have encoundered this SO 
> MANY  TIMES.
> You struggle to find the download
> page, and then you have to be an ancient Egyptian Hieroglypics
> cryptologist to decipher which thing you REALLY need and which
> button to click on to get it!
>
> I mean, why cant they be clever enough to have one link that says "IF
> YOU DONT KNOW SH!!T FROM SHINOLA, AND YOU HAVE WINDOWS,
> THEN CLICK HERE FOR AN AUTOMATIC INSTALL",  since the
> inexperienced person will not understand all the other baloney, and
> someone who DOES understand all the other baloney probably can do
> a cygwin installation from source code.
>
> _http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/_ 
> (http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/)
>
> I am GUESSING that what I need from this page is
> postgresql-8.0.2.zip
> since I dont speak Japanese...
>
> ==================================================
>
> postgresql-8.0.2.zip is the multi-language version of the installer. 
> This
> file has been GPG signed at build time by Dave Page. Dave's public key
> may be found
>
> at _http://www.pgadmin.org/pgp/davepage.pgp_
> (http://www.pgadmin.org/pgp/davepage.pgp)
>
> postgresql-8.0.2-ja.zip is a Japanese specific version. This file has
> been by Hiroshi Saito whose public key may be found at:
> _http://cre-ent.skcapi.co.jp/~saito/developer/pginst/hiroshi.pgp_
> (http://cre-ent.skcapi.co.jp/~saito/developer/pginst/hiroshi.pgp)
>
> postgresql-8.0.2-binaries-no-installer.zip is a zip of the PostgreSQL
> installation directory. It does not include any of the bundled apps  or
> drivers and is intended for expert users only!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller_
> (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller)
>
> HERE IS THE POST which lead me to the about download page for the
> postgreSQL installer....
>
>
>
> _http://www.jroller.com/page/nathan/Weblog?catname=%2Ftech_
> (http://www.jroller.com/page/nathan/Weblog?catname=/tech)
>
> Wednesday August 25, 2004
> Postgres 8.0 Beta1
>
> It's been around for a while, but I have a work driven excuse to try 
> out
> the latest version of postgres on windows and see how it goes.
> This version has perhaps the biggest thing to happen to postgres for
> some years: a windows installer for postgres.. So that means no more
> mucking around with cygwin and the millions of libraries cygwin it
> needs JUST to get a decent open source database installed on a
> windows box.
>
> MySQL I really didn't take seriously up until a few years back when
> they seemed to sort out what a transaction was all about, but I would
> still place Postgres over MySQL, simply because it started out with a
> decent underlying model (Object Relational under the covers) and
> built on that, rather than whipping up a quick and dirty solution and
> having to tack on things that should really have been in there since
> the word go.
>
> I previously used postgres a lot on an internal CRM/Sales
> reporting/intranet J2EE app at a previous job, and aside from
> scheduling a vacuum to run every-so-often, it was maintenance free
> and rock solid. It sat on Red Hat linux, with JBoss, Resin (then
> migrated to tomcat later as they changed their licencing structure)
> and apache between the end users and it. Never seemed to need
> kicking over or restarting, just sat there and served up data quite
> reliably.
>
> In the current job at CustomWare we've had the 8.0beta1 up for a
> little while on linux (servicing our jira, confluence and other random
> internal systems), so it seems to have handled that load ok
> (confluence has a fairly large swag of documents and information
> stored in it by now, and jira has lots of issues/support requests/tasks
> etc).
>
> Anyhow, the windows installer seems pretty straight forward, it puts
> postgres in as a service and will create a user for it (with a warning
> when you try to pick a dummy password for the user account.. always
> nice to know it stops you from your own stupidity). Comes with
> PGAdmin III ready to go as an admin tool, so setting up databases,
> tablespaces, users etc is all straight forward.
>
> Jira and jive seem to talk to the windows postgres no problems, I'll
> see what else I can point at it as I go, to give it a fair share of the
> development time on my laptop (rather than oracle) and see whether
> there are any bugs in the beta version.
>
> So finally, MySQL should be worried in the windows open source db
> market... Because the only real reason mysql has been so widely
> spread is that it has a nice easy windows install. Postgres has that
> now too, it's also opensource and lots of documentation and support
> out there. Look forward to the full 8.0 release..
>
> Thought I'd summarise the links (since people tend to want to find
> something if they end up here from google):
>
> Postgres main site - _http://www.postgresql.org_ 
> (http://www.postgresql.org)
> Windows  installer for postgres -
>
> _http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller_
> (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller)
> JDBC Drivers for Postgres - _http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html_
> (http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html)
> Postgres documentation - _http://www.postgresql.org/docs/_
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/)   (really
> good general SQL reference too)
> (2004-08-25 01:30:50.0) Permalink  Comments [2]
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