On Tuesday 13 November 2001 18:53, you wrote:
> hi andre!
>
> thx for the DISPLAY warning.  can you explain why this was necessary?  thx!
>  :)
>
> good luck with the creating the tables!  my next step too...  :)
>
> At 14:05 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi tek!
> >
> >Nope. I'm using the pre-installed version. Btw, shortly after I sent the
> > last reply, I solved my problems with gui Postgresql Access.
> >
> >In case you run into the same problem: it took me three days to figure
> > this one out - I forgot to su to root (and exit after!) for:
> >
> >bash$ export DISPLAY=<hostname>:0.0
> >
> >As soon as I had entered this, of course I could access the db! (A big
> > duhh here!). I've found that if I plug away at something long enough, I
> > get to know the program.


Hi tek!

Without the export DISPLAY statement, I couldn't load the GUI "Postgresql 
Access", but I could access it on the commandline. I kept getting the 
following error messages (since the postmaster wasn't running):

"Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Is the 
postmaster running and accepting connections at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?"

or

"Connection to database 'postgres' failed. connectDB() failed: Isthe 
postmaster running and accepting connections TCP/IP (wit -i) connections at 
'localhost' on port '5432'?"

Wish I had su-ed then typed the command. It would have saved me lots of 
grief; but then again, I wouldn't have learned much. 

Regards,
Andre



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