> $ net start postmaster > The postmaster service is starting. > The postmaster service was started successfully. I'm not sure if this is the same under cygwin, but, you need to start postmaster with the -i option to use psql. I believe that postgres starts for only programming type of access without it. terry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/