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From Fred Parkinson
Subject adminpack installed?
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Msg-id 4D05E73C020000A700015208@gwia1.abag.ca.gov
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Responses Re: adminpack installed?  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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New to managing postgresql, I hope my questions are not a burden to this group, but I have another.
 
I have installed version 8.4.5 of postgresql, 1.12.1 of pgadmin3.
 
When I invoke pgadmin3 from a terminal prompt I get the message that
"The server lacks instrumentation functions....adminpack is installed and activated by default...is included as a contrib module with all versions of PostgreSQL 8.2 and above...copy the appropriate adminpack source code ..."
 
Yet adminpack.sql already exists in /contrib and according to the message, is activated by default in 8.4.5.
 
I installed postgresql using Yast, set PGLIB and PGDATA by hand, changed ownership to postgres and ran initdb to initialize it.
(I don't recall if I downloaded pgadmin3 from postgresql.org or used Yast to install it. In Yast the version number of pgadmin3 is in red (?), so maybe I downloaded it by hand.)
 
Do I need to do something to tell the system adminpack is already available, or something else?
 
Thanks for any help with this issue.
 
Fred

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