Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-11 Thread Emil Pedersen

> 
> I can't for the life of me get postgresql to start and stop.  running
> /etc/init.d/postgresql stop gets me this:
> 
> Stopping PostgreSQL database: postmaster
> /etc/init.d/postgresql:  command not found
> 
> while running
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl-D /var/lib/postgres/data stop
> gives the following:
> 
> pg_ctl: cannot find /var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid
> Is postmaster running?


Do you run  /etc/init.d/postgresql  as root?  "start-stop-daemon" is (in
my system at least) located in  /sbin  so ordinary users usually don't
find it (/sbin is not in their path).

Best regards,
Emil


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Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-09 Thread bob parker

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:17, Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:56:49AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:22:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > > localall   trust
> > > host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0   ident
> >
> > Here you tell PostgreSQL to use ident.
>
> hmm, ok, I'll take out that line -- though I would have thought
> that, since I'm connecting from localhost, this wouldn't be an issue.
>
> > Sorry I don't fully understand that. You define one ODBC conenction for
> > exactly one database, so what are you looking for?
>
> that's the reply I was looking for -- I didn't undersetand exactly how
>  ODBC works.
>
> I can't for the life of me get postgresql to start and stop.  running
> /etc/init.d/postgresql stop gets me this:
>
> Stopping PostgreSQL database: postmaster
> /etc/init.d/postgresql: start-stop-daemon: command not found
>
> while running
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl-D /var/lib/postgres/data stop
> gives the following:
>
> pg_ctl: cannot find /var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid
> Is postmaster running?
>
> I guess I'm missing something important, but it's not evident what
> when I read the docs.  any help is appreciated!  thanks,
> m

I'm not on top of this by any means but even from localhost there are2 ways 
to connect, via tcp/ip and by unix socket.
When you connect by pgsql you are using the unix socket - i think.
Connection issues are dicussed very fully on the posgresql admin mailing list 
see http://www.postgresql.org

HTH
Bob


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Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-09 Thread Matt Price

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:56:49AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:22:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > localall   trust
> > host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0   ident
> 
> Here you tell PostgreSQL to use ident.

hmm, ok, I'll take out that line -- though I would have thought
that, since I'm connecting from localhost, this wouldn't be an issue. 


> Sorry I don't fully understand that. You define one ODBC conenction for
> exactly one database, so what are you looking for?
> 

that's the reply I was looking for -- I didn't undersetand exactly how
 ODBC works.  

I can't for the life of me get postgresql to start and stop.  running 
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop gets me this: 

Stopping PostgreSQL database: postmaster
/etc/init.d/postgresql: start-stop-daemon: command not found

while running 
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl-D /var/lib/postgres/data stop 
gives the following: 

pg_ctl: cannot find /var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid
Is postmaster running?

I guess I'm missing something important, but it's not evident what
when I read the docs.  any help is appreciated!  thanks,
m


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Re: [GENERAL] odbc with debian woody/postgres

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Meskes

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:22:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> localall   trust
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0   ident

Here you tell PostgreSQL to use ident.

> ps:  assuming I get thisworking, how do I add other database names to
> odbc.ini?  Do I need whole new sections (like
> "[Postgresql/dbname]") or can I just add the dbnames to the Database
> line of the file?  

Sorry I don't fully understand that. You define one ODBC conenction for
exactly one database, so what are you looking for?

Michael
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