When I ran PostgreSQL on Windows, I did it through cygwin.
In case you're unfamiliar with cygwin, it is a command shell wrapper that gives you a Bash command line interface to your system. What's nice about cygwin is that you can install a lot of standard GNU and unix utilities with it, thus making the cygwin command shell much more useful than the standard cmd.exe that you get with Win2k and XP.
Some useful links:
Cygwin:
http://www.cygwin.com/
Postgres users docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/i...ive/index.html
Postgres administrators docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/i...ive/admin.html
Postgres install docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/i...tallation.html
Postgres install on windows docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/i...all-win32.html
When you install postgres under cygwin, you have to open a cygwin window to start the database. I don't think you can install it as a service.
Best of luck!
Take care,
Nik
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