POSTGRESQL INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ZIP

Downloading the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package I am not sure which PostgreSQL versions require the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 distributable package, but if I remember correctly, I had to install it when I installed PostgreSQL 9.1.

POSTGRESQL INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ZIP

Nevertheless, I will leave it here because you still need to do it if you install older PostgreSQL versions by using the binary zip distribution. However, another reader claimed that he had to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 redistributable package before he could run PostgreSQL 9.5. One reader said that he was able to run PostgreSQL without installing it. The first step (installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributable package) might not be required anymore. These steps are described with more details in the following. Download and unpack the PostgreSQL binary distribution.Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributable package.Preparing the PostgreSQL 9.1 Installation The required steps are described with more details in later Sections of this blog entry. Also, even though this blog entry describes the installation process of PostgreSQL 9.1, these instructions should be valid for older versions of PostgreSQL as well. This blog entry is written to fill that void. The installation process was quite straightforward but it took some time because I could not find a decent tutorial about it. Since we could not solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time, we had to use the binary zip distribution. We had several problems with the one click installer and after the installation process was finished, we could not start the PostgreSQL database. Today I was helping a colleague of mine to install and configure PostgreSQL 9.1 to his laptop which was running on Windows 7.

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