Command line struggles

Of course now, I am in psql command line, and trying in vain to make the examples work in "Beginning Databasses with POSTGRESQL" by Matthew and Stones.

I can type \H and see help
I can type \? and read the list that results, of commands

I see a prompt template1-#

yet when I type at that prompt

createuser


AHAAAA wait! Light dawns on marblehead.

A more careful reading of the textbook reveals that createuser.exe is a program in \program files\postgresql\8.2\bin

If I click on that createuser.exe icon in explorer, it prompts me for the name of the new user, the password, are they superuser.

If at the dos prompt, in \8.2\bin  I type createuser -U postgres -P neil

then, it also works, slightly differently than clicking the Icon, and echos something about a new role.

But, at least, I surmounted this hurdle, and can make some more progress with the textbook.

Hmmm... it tells me to also create a user named rick, who can create databases, but does not have permission to create new users.  I am not certain how to do this, since the createuser program does not respond exactly as the book describes



Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com> wrote:

Glad to hear that it worked out good for you :-)

Thanks,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/10/06, Philippe Salama <karebacnyc@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thanks Shoaib. You are perfectly correct! After I installed postgresql, but without installing any odbc driver, I went to MS Access, and found both the ANSI and the Unicode driver. I think I chose ANSI, ...  I was able to link to all the tables which the Celko script defined, and I was able to browse the test data in those tables, and yet PG explorer gave some kind of error when I tried to browse, and I could not for the life of me see where PGAdmin allows me to browse tables.

But, anyway I am making progress, and I have the latest postgresql installed, and MS Access can link to the tables.  Thanks, all!

Shoaib Mir < shoaibmir@gmail.com> wrote:

Once you have installed PostgreSQL you can now use the ANSI or Unicode ODBC driver from the ODBC driver manager in Windows as it gets installed automatically during installation.

Thanks,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/10/06, Philippe Salama <karebacnyc@yahoo.com > wrote:

I just installed 8.2.1 postgresql. Now I want an odbc driver to work on my Dell XP with MS Access.  The choices are very confusing. Please advise. I am not a rocket scientist.  Thanks!

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