[GENERAL] problem getting started with PostgreSQL 8 beta 3 on XP

[Steve Gollery]

I installed Postgres 8 beta 3 on an XP box, with Postgres running as a 
service. TaskManager tells me that postgres and postmaster are both 
running. Using pgAdmin III, I can connect to the server and create 
users, databases, tables, etc.

But at the command line, on the same machine where the service is 
running, executing

createdb mydb
gives this:
could not connect to database template1: could not connect to server:
No such file or directory
        Is the server running locally and accepting
        connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
The documentation says:
"This means that the server was not started, or it was not started where 
createdb expected it."

Since pgAdmin has no trouble connecting, I assume that the server is 
running and receiving connections at port 5432, so that leaves the 
second part: not started where createdb expected it.

I've tried explicitly including the host, port, user, password, and that 
doesn't help.

Any ideas what's going wrong here?
Steven Gollery
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