Hi. Oh boy that original post of mine was made months ago.... Well if you have the documentation at /usr/doc/packages/postgres/ you have installed postgres allready. All you seem to need is to get the postmaster daemon running. This is done automatically in the future, but the first time you must start it by creating a dummy detabase. The problem is solved in the answer below, just log in to the postgre account with "su postgres ENTER postgres_passwd" and do as the man sais! Worked for me Ola A again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft@verdesoft.net> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: den 5 januari 1999 01:18 Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] postgres

I am having problems getting Postgres working at all. Can you give me some help in getting it installed? I am trying to figure it out using the files in /usr/doc/packages/postgres/, but haven't had much luck getting things working.

Thanks, Aaron

zentara wrote:

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Ola Andersson wrote:

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Hi

How do I start postgreSQL.

I read the docs but I couldent even log in to the postgres account (usink the KDE login app) and start the demon.

I don't know about the KDE interface. First, you must start the postgres demon. In YAST , under the "edit configuration file", there is a line to START POSTGRES, set it to yes. Then you must login to the postgres database "jolly", which is a default database. It is in the postgres postscript docs. For some reason, postgres won't start unless it has a default database to begin with. Once you have gotten "jolly", you can issuse a "createdb" of your database and forget about jolly. You then can logon to your db.

Example: pgsql jolly

that will get you going, then

createdb mydb;

Then you can start postgres with pgsql mydb

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