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Installation Notes
Welcome to the PostgreSQL 8.3 Installation Wizard. Before you begin Please check the pginstaller FAQ at http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/FAQ_windows.html before you get started. If you experience any problems, please check it again. Also, make sure you have read through these installation notes completely. Legal Bits First the boring legal stuff. The software bundled together in this package is released under a number of different Open Source licences. By using any component of this installation package, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of its licence. The PostgreSQL Server, Slony-I, JDBC driver and PL/Java are released under a variant of the BSD Licence. Npgsql is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, with TLS extensions included under the MIT licence. psqlODBC is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. pgAdmin III is released under the Artistic Licence. PostGIS is released under the GNU General Public License. Sourcecode is available from http://postgis.refractions.net. PgOleDB is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. Please see the documentation for each component for a copy of each licence. Supported Operating Systems PostgreSQL may be installed on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. At the time of writing it has not yet been tested on 64 bit versions of Windows. PostgreSQL will not run on Windows 95, 98 and ME. Please note that whilst PostgreSQL will run on a server running Terminal Services, it must be installed from the system console. Supported Filesystems PostgreSQLs data directory must be installed on an NTFS filesystem to minimise the possibility of data loss in the event of a power failure or similar problem. FAT filesystems may not be used as they cannot provide either protection against corruption, or any security features. The software itself may be installed on any partition type. Installation as a Service In order to start PostgreSQL automatically at boot time, it must be installed as a Windows Service. A wrapper program is used to control the postmaster from the Services control panel applet, or using net start/stop from the command line. In addition, the normal PostgreSQL control program, pg_ctl may be used to start or stop the service, as well as request it to reload its configuration files (or, for those familiar with Unix, send it a SIGHUP). You will be given options to install PostgreSQL as a service later in the installation process. The installer can create a special user account to run the service under, or you may use an existing non-administrative account. This account must have read permissions on all directories leading

up to the installation directory from the root of the installed drive. The installer will set the correct permissions on the installation directory and below automatically. Installation as a Program If you do not wish to install PostgreSQL as a service, it may be installed as an application for manual startup and shutdown. You will need to use the pg_ctl program to start and stop PostgreSQL as required. For PostgreSQL support, please use the appropriate mailing list. A complete list may be found at http://www.postgresql.org/lists.html. Npgsql The Microsoft compatible version of Npgsql is installed into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), thus no corresponding DLL will be found under the Npgsql installation directory. The Mono compatible version is installed in the filesystem. For Npgsql support, please use the npgsql-devel@pgfoundry.org mailing list. JDBC The JDBC drivers are installed into the jdbc\ subdirectory of the main installation directory by default. You may wish to add this folder to the CLASSPATH environment variable to allow the drivers to be found automatically by your Java programs. For JDBC support, please use the pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org mailing list. psqlODBC For psqlODBC support, please use the pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org mailing list. pgAdmin III For pgAdmin support, please use the pgadmin-support@postgresql.org mailing list. PgOleDB For PgOleDB support, please use the resources at the project site: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/oledb. PL/Java For PL/Java support, you must add your Java JRE directory to the system PATH variable (usually c:\Program Files\Java\jre_xxx\bin\client). PostGIS For PostGIS support, please use the resources at the project site: http://www.postgis.org/ Slony-I For Slony-I support, please use the resources at the project site: http://slony.info/ So what are you waiting for? Well, thats all folks! Just hit Next to start the installation process. Legal Notes
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/) This product includes Kerberos software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

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