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 <cdeadl...@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 > > >
