On 29/03/2011 21:21, Marc Fromm wrote:
> By editing postgresql.conf and changing listen_address = ‘*’ and editing
> pg_hba.conf and adding host all all my.ip.address allowed me to connect
> to the postgresql data base with Microsoft access.
>
> In access I can see the table and it fields, but if I try to use the
> table in a querry or view the table I get an error: permission denied
> for relation summer_finaid; error while executing the query (#7)
You need to grant permission on the table to the user:
GRANT SELECT ON summer_finaid TO [insert your user here];
See the docs here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-grant.html
> Also in the postgresql instead of listen_address=’*’ I tried
> listen_address=’localhost, my.ip.address’ but that failed to work.
>
> How can I keep local host and only allow specific address? I don’t want
> to open it up to all with ‘*’
listen_addresses specifies the interfaces on which Postgres *listens*,
not the remote hosts which can connect - that's done in pg_hba.conf.
Ray.
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