On Thursday, December 08, 2011 1:40:08 pm Chris Deadlock wrote: > Hello, I have installed postgres version 8.4.9 from the debian repository. > > I set up a username and password, and was able to create my tables and add > information to the database from a java application running through a > remote SSH tunnel. > > Then I moved this same command line program onto the same server as the > database resides : when I create tables from this location I can only > access them from this local machine: I can use psql -U user dbname (same > login and pass as the remote connection) and i can select * from > users; and it shows all the entries just fine. > > But if I try to connect using the same login and password through a remote > SSH tunnel, I can not see any of the tables created from the CLI on the > server... If I create the tables from the remote location I can query them > fine. > > The exact error message is : ERROR: relation "users" does not exist > (Either from pgAdmin GUI, or from the command line interface that comes > with pgAdmin ) > > Am I misunderstanding something fundamental about user authentication? How > does postgres distinguish localhost connections from SSH tunneled > connections? See here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html > Is it possible that somehow connecting form a local linux-user > account is creating hidden tables within my otherwise remotely accessable > database? First question, are you sure you are connecting to same database in both the remote and local case? If the answer to above is yes, then it sounds like a search_path issue. To confirm, when trying to select from users in the remote case use the full schema qualified name for table. i.e some_schema.users. > > Thank you -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
