Re: pgadmin3: can't locate server: what am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your quick and accurate reply.
I logged in as root, picked the 'add a connection...' option you
suggested and voila! The server is now visible to pgadmin3/root user.

Thanks again, Fred

>>> Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> 12/13/2010 8:32 AM >>>
Le 13/12/2010 17:20, Fred Parkinson a écrit :
> I am a longtime user of postgersql, using it as a backend and using
odbc to connect and it has been an amazingly stable and useful database
manager.
>
> Now, a longtime Windows user (disgruntled) I am trying to set up a
development platform on a local Suse Linux box which includes a local
install of postgresql.
> Last week I successfully installed postgersql and created a database,
but today pgadmin3 doesn't seem to find it!
> Using the unix ps command I see there are postgre processes running,
so the server is up.
>
> Logged in as user postgre and invoking pgadmin3, 'Server Groups' is
empty.
> logged in as user root and 'server groups' is empty.
> logged in as fredrated and the server is there.
>
> Can someone explain what this means? Why is the server only visible
to this user?
>

Because only this user has configured access to this server. pgAdmin
can
sometimes auto-detect local servers, but you shouldn't rely on this.
Usually, you should add them yourself to pgAdmin (first button on the
toolbar).

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