running postgres

Ken Johansson wrote:

and i though PostgreSQL would be easier to get up and running than SQL
server............

Question? Complaint? Thinking out loud? Lyrics to a song? We're all
standing by, Ken!

On 10/18/07, Ken Johansson <kjohansson@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:

and i though PostgreSQL would be easier to get up and running than SQL
server............

I sincerely hope you don't consider that the sole criteria for
choosing databases.

Personally, I found it quite easy.

apt-get install postgresqlp8.2
sudo /etc/init.d/postgres-8.2 start
sudo su - postgres
psql

4 whole steps. I must be forgetting something there.

Hello,

Sorry everyone for the stupid rant. Wont happen again. And thanks for
offer assistance. I seem to have it running and once i have a valid
question ill post it.

Sorry again..

Ken

On 18/10/2007, brian <brian@zijn-digital.com> wrote:

Ken Johansson wrote:

and i though PostgreSQL would be easier to get up and running than SQL
server............

Question? Complaint? Thinking out loud? Lyrics to a song? We're all
standing by, Ken!

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On 10/18/07, Ken Johansson <kjohansson@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:

Hello,

Sorry everyone for the stupid rant. Wont happen again. And thanks for
offer assistance. I seem to have it running and once i have a valid
question ill post it.

Don't worry about it. We've all had to cut our teeth sometime. And
don't worry, it shouldn't take long before something truly puzzling
has you back on the lists.

Ken Johansson wrote:

Hello,

Sorry everyone for the stupid rant. Wont happen again. And thanks for
offer assistance. I seem to have it running and once i have a valid
question ill post it.

Sorry again..

Ken

We'll put it down as "thinking out loud" then. It happens. ;-)

brian

Scott Marlowe wrote:

On 10/18/07, Ken Johansson <kjohansson@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:

and i though PostgreSQL would be easier to get up and running than SQL
server............

I sincerely hope you don't consider that the sole criteria for
choosing databases.

I don't know - it's put me off MS-SQL in a big way.

Not only don't they have an apt repository for Debian, they don't even
have compile instructions on their site - gcc is throwing up all sorts
of errors. Maybe I'll try on intel rather than ppc...

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

Em Thursday 18 October 2007 14:57:27 brian escreveu:

Ken Johansson wrote:

Hello,

Sorry everyone for the stupid rant. Wont happen again. And thanks for
offer assistance. I seem to have it running and once i have a valid
question ill post it.

Sorry again..

Ken

We'll put it down as "thinking out loud" then. It happens. ;-)

OK... But was it harder or easier than MS SQL Server? :-)

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Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:50:02AM -0500,
Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote
a message of 18 lines which said:

Personally, I found it quite easy.

apt-get install postgresqlp8.2
sudo /etc/init.d/postgres-8.2 start
sudo su - postgres
psql

4 whole steps.

Although I regard PostgreSQL as quite simple and easy to use (I find
it easier than MySQL, for instance), your oversimplication won't help
the potential users to evalute PostgreSQL. For instance, I typically
spend a lot of time in step 5, editing pg_hba.conf and struggling to
obtain the desired effect.

Also, on non-Debian platforms, step 1 can be more complicated if I
want other languages (I use Python a lot in my stored procedures).