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On 10/31/2011 09:45 AM, daflmx wrote:

Hi,friends.
How can I use the postgreSQL database after I have installed the
postgresql-8.4_8.4.8-0squeeze2_i386.deb?I don't konw which directory it
has been released to.

It should be on your PATH. Use the "psql" command to interact with it,
and start/stop it via the postgresql script in /etc/init.d/ . To find
out where psql is installed, use "which psql" at the command prompt.

You shouldn't need to manually install a particular deb, anyway; you
should be using "apt-get install postgresql" or similar if you want to
use a package to install PostgreSQL.

--
Craig Ringer

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:45 PM, daflmx <daflmx@qq.com> wrote:

Hi,friends.
How can I use the postgreSQL database after I have installed the
postgresql-8.4_8.4.8-0squeeze2_i386.deb?I don't konw which directory it has
been released to.

Make sure you've got a postgresql-8.4-client or something like that.
sudo su - postgres
psql

and you're in.

If you want to be able to access it as you, then after psql do:

create user yournamehere;
create database yournamehere with owner yournamehere;
\q

then exit the postgres shell. Now psql for you as joe user should work.