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? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Postgres-8.2-binary-for-ubuntu-6.10--tf4053274.html#a11526007 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
