Re: [ADMIN] help me!!

hi rong...

well...is the postmaster running ?

there are a couple of postintallation steps ...

first, you must create and prepare the data files.
lets assume your pgSQL is installed on /usr/local/pgsql, right ?

1 . make dir where your data files are going to live, say data
root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data

2 . lets make user postgres the owner of this dir
root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data

3 . let postgres init dababase on this dir
root# su postgres
postgres# /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

4 . start the postmaster..
set the environment var PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
postgres# /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i

-i allows tcp connections to the db.

5 .start the client
postgres# /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql

There is are various front end GUI's to postgres..one I use is pgAccess-- go to their page and lurk a bit ..

If you don't have the postgresql docs, you should take it on the postgresql.org site because there are a lot of options to postgresql be compiled with depending on further use you are going to do..to conect via Java, C++... and any way...printing this docs you'll find most of your answers faster. There are the admin, programmer, user...guides..and a small tutorial..

Good luck .. and best regards,

Andrew