Re: Why can't I connect to postgres?

On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:

> I just installed Postgres for Mac.
>
> Also, where is a nice browser/editor for postgres? Something like
> the OpenBase manager, but for Postgres. Something friendly and neat
> and simple. I'm sick of all these stupid syntax errors making me
> spend half a day doing something I could do in 1 minute.
>
> I tried SyBrowserX, but it wouldn't connect. I tried an SQL browser
> that I wrote myself in REALbasic, and it also wouldn't connect. Why
> can't I connect to postgres??
>
> I haven't got very far and yet I'm already seeing problems. I'm
> assuming there's a simple solution.

See these pages for free/commercial GUI tools:

http://www.postgresql.org/download/

http://www.postgresql.org/download/commercial

pgAdmin III, Navicat, and pgEdit have Mac versions.

If you still can't connect, you need to give more info about the
error you are getting. Also, you can usually look in the PostreSQL
log file to help identify connection problems.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL