On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:50:39AM -0700, novnov wrote: > > 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? Show the doc in /usr/share/doc/postgresql* for details. If pgadmin runs on the same machine then localhost is your choice. Don't forget to edit the pg_hda.conf under your data-dir (ex. /var/lib/pgsql or so). Greetings Mario -- ----------------------------------------------------- | havelsoft.com - Ihr Service Partner für Open Source | | Tel: 033876-21 966 | | Notruf: 0173-277 33 60 | | http://www.havelsoft.com | | | | Inhaber: Mario Günterberg | | Mützlitzer Strasse 19 | | 14715 Märkisch Luch | -----------------------------------------------------
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