Re: Postgres 8.2 binary for ubuntu 6.10?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, novnov wrote:
>
> Thanks all of you. It does seem like the backport is the way to go.
>
> So now I have 8.2 and some new postgres/linux newb questions.
>
> I can safely remove 8.1 after moving data using synaptic, ie 8.2 shouldn't
> be dependent on 8.1 at all?
>
> I don't understand how postgres is installed with these package managers.
> The windows installer asks me for the superuser name (postgres is the
> default) and I provide a password. There is an option to run as a service,
> and a windows user acct can be created for that. After the synaptic install,
> postgres seems to be running as a service. I see a postgres user account is
> created 'postgres' but don't know what the password is?
>
> Finally, I've never been able to get pgadmin to work on linux. I can't
> connect, probably because the password is unknown, but another question is
> the host address, is localhost is ok?

Show the doc in /usr/share/doc/postgresql* for details.
If pgadmin runs on the same machine then localhost is your choice.
Don't forget to edit the pg_hda.conf under your data-dir (ex.
/var/lib/pgsql or so).

Greetings
Mario

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