Re: How to test my new install

On 01/02/2010 12:21, ray joseph wrote:
> Raymond,
>
> Thank you. Yes, that sounds like a great step. I am new to this so I could
> use a little help: What do you mean to connect to it and how would I do it?

psql is the command-line client for Postgres, which lets you connect to
databases and run SQL commands directly against them. You can read about
it here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/app-psql.html

On the XP machine, open a command prompt and type....

[path to PG install dir]\bin\pgsql -U [username] [databasename]

...and see if you can connect to the database. If you can connect and
run queries, then the DB server is running.

If your app stack is connecting from a different machine, I'd then try
connecting from that machine to see if there are any network issues that
would prevent the connection.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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