Re: Command line struggles - Mailing list pgsql-admin

See this link from PostgreSQL 8.2 official documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/app-createuser.html

It clearly describes the details and sitches of the createuser binary.
And also, I would recommend using this documentation rather than
a book which may (actually will) contain references from older versions.

--Imad
www.EnterpriseDB.com


On 12/10/06, Philippe Salama <karebacnyc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course now, I am in psql command line, and trying in vain to make the
> examples work in "Beginning Databasses with POSTGRESQL" by Matthew and
> Stones.
>
> I can type \H and see help
> I can type \? and read the list that results, of commands
>
> I see a prompt template1-#
>
> yet when I type at that prompt
>
> createuser
>
>
> AHAAAA wait! Light dawns on marblehead.
>
> A more careful reading of the textbook reveals that createuser.exe is a
> program in \program files\postgresql\8.2\bin
>
> If I click on that createuser.exe icon in explorer, it prompts me for the
> name of the new user, the password, are they superuser.
>
> If at the dos prompt, in \8.2\bin  I type createuser -U postgres -P neil
>
> then, it also works, slightly differently than clicking the Icon, and echos
> something about a new role.
>
> But, at least, I surmounted this hurdle, and can make some more progress
> with the textbook.
>
> Hmmm... it tells me to also create a user named rick, who can create
> databases, but does not have permission to create new users.  I am not
> certain how to do this, since the createuser program does not respond
> exactly as the book describes
>
>
>
> Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Glad to hear that it worked out good for you :-)
>
> Thanks,
> ---------
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)
>
> On 12/10/06, Philippe Salama <karebacnyc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Shoaib. You are perfectly correct! After I installed postgresql,
> but without installing any odbc driver, I went to MS Access, and found both
> the ANSI and the Unicode driver. I think I chose ANSI, ...  I was able to
> link to all the tables which the Celko script defined, and I was able to
> browse the test data in those tables, and yet PG explorer gave some kind of
> error when I tried to browse, and I could not for the life of me see where
> PGAdmin allows me to browse tables.
> >
> > But, anyway I am making progress, and I have the latest postgresql
> installed, and MS Access can link to the tables.  Thanks, all!
> >
> > Shoaib Mir < shoaibmir@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Once you have installed PostgreSQL you can now use the ANSI or Unicode
> ODBC driver from the ODBC driver manager in Windows as it gets installed
> automatically during installation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ----------
> > Shoaib Mir
> > EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)
> >
> >
> > On 12/10/06, Philippe Salama <karebacnyc@yahoo.com > wrote:
> > > I just installed 8.2.1 postgresql. Now I want an odbc driver to work on
> my Dell XP with MS Access.  The choices are very confusing. Please advise. I
> am not a rocket scientist.  Thanks!
> > >
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