Re: Windows 7 - PgAdmin II no longer connects to databases

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Francisco Leovey <fleovey(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Bump... please somebody help me out
>
> I upgraded my PC to Windows 7 from XP SP2
>
> PgAdmin III latest release works fine against Postgres 8 and 9
>
> BUT I have to use PgAdmin II 1.6.0 in order to connect to an old AIX server
> that has Postgres 7.1.2 (updating is NOT possible)
>
> Worked fine in XP, now it refuses to connect to the databases.
> It shows correctly the list of databases but when clicking on one, it shows
> a red cross on top of the DB icon and on the right panel the Connection
> Status says : Inaccesible
>
> It is odd since it sees correctly all the properties of Postgres and the
> databases, but will not show the tables, etc.
>
> I tried to run PgAdmin II in compatibility mode with no success. Any ideas?
>
>
iirc, pgAdmin II was last released in 2003 when Windows XP was shiny and
new. It's really not a great surprise that it doesn't play nicely with
Windows 7. I'm not sure there's anything you could do except for running it
on XP under VMware or something.

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