Like most problems, this was stupidity on my part!
I had an old test copy of postgres running on the same port of this windows laptop, so of course I was connecting to that instead of the SSH tunnel that was set up by Putty.
Problem solved, thanks for the help
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Chris Deadlock
<cdeadlock@vendtxt.com> 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? Is it possible that somehow connecting form a local linux-user account is creating hidden tables within my otherwise remotely accessable database?
Thank you