Re: Postgre installation issue

From: Dusan Misic <promisic(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: ammar(dot)fallaha(at)automata4(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgre installation issue
Date: 2010-12-28 11:59:02
Message-ID: AANLkTi=0aoNdYSkTP_Q1wgk7Yc0esWB7Q11E6CETvo77@mail.gmail.com
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Oops, I gave wrong answer. Sorry :-)

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dusan Misic <promisic(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Check if Secondary logon service is running. If it is not running, start it
> and try again to start PostgreSQL. It should work now.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Ammar Fallaha <
> ammar(dot)fallaha(at)automata4(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> We are trying to switch from Oracle 10g to Postgre but I am having few
>> technical issues which I am listing here and I hope someone can help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Server Status:
>>
>> - I am installing “postgresql-9.0.2-1-windows.exe” package on
>> Windows Server 2003 SP2 with 2 LAN Cards
>>
>> - The server is part of a domain and I am installing using the
>> Administrator login
>>
>> - Before installation we have removed completely the AV software
>>
>>
>>
>> Installation:
>>
>> - We have chose the following directories during installation:
>> D:\PostgreSQL\9.0
>>
>> D:\PostgreSQL\9.0\data
>>
>> - The PG user was created in the domain users with a pw that was
>> accepted
>>
>> - During installation, The locale is English, United States and
>> not to [Default locale]
>>
>> - During installation, starting the database server, this error
>> shows
>>
>> Warning: Problem running post-install step. Installation may not complete
>> correctly
>> Failed to start the database server.
>>
>> I clicked OK and continue
>>
>> - After installation completion, the service "postgresql-9.0 -
>> PostgreSQL Server 9.0" will fail. It is setup to start Automatically
>> Services: could not start the postgresql-9.0 service on Local Computer.
>>
>> Error 1069: The service did not start due to a login failure.
>>
>> - When checking the service login, I found out the user to be
>> .\postgres so browse for it in the domain and changed it to
>> DOMAIN_NAME\postgres, re-start the service it worked
>>
>>
>>
>> Configuration Problems:
>>
>> 1. In postgresql.conf file when I changed the listen address to one
>> of my LAN card to channel all traffic through it by doing: listen_addresses
>> = '192.168.1.212' instead of listen_addresses = '*', re-starting the service
>> will not work, changing the entry back and re-starting the service will not
>> work, changing the entry back and re-start the whole server will work and
>> the service will start
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. In pg_hba.conf I have the following entries:
>> host all all
>> 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>>
>> host all all
>> 192.168.1.211/32 md5
>>
>> host all all
>> 192.168.1.212/32 md5
>>
>> host all all
>> 192.168.1.4/32 md5
>>
>>
>>
>> using PGAdmin from the server itself, I created 2 New login Role “1” and
>> “2” , 2 Tablespace “1” and “2” as this
>> D:\tablespace\1
>>
>> D:\tablespace\2
>>
>> which is next to the PG directory D:\PostgreSQL
>>
>> and had to gave permission to the user: DOMAIN_NAME\postgres to
>> D:\tablespace directory
>>
>> then created the database “1” and “2” with the prospective user as owner
>> and the tablespace
>>
>>
>>
>> Logging from the remote machine with IP: 192.168.1.4 using the user 1, I
>> can see both 1 and 2 dbs
>>
>> however when I changed the pg_hba.conf to
>>
>> host 1 all
>> 192.168.1.4/32 md5
>>
>> restarting the service, I can’t login at all. This entry does not work
>>
>>
>>
>> however; these entries will work:
>>
>> host all all
>> 192.168.1.4/32 md5
>>
>> host all 1
>> 192.168.1.4/32 md5
>>
>> But still can see all the dbs
>>
>> I need to have each user sees its own DB, how can I do that
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ** More to follow
>>
>
>

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