Rebecca,
If you're familiar with MS Access you can use it as an interface. It has to be configured so it uses ODBC. PhpPGAdmin is also a good choice. Using it, you can interface with a browser.
I don't really know much about postgres in a Windows environment, but in Unix I don't have to supply those parameters unless there is ambiguity. For example, I have two instances running on the same machine. One uses port number 5432 and the other uses 5433. In this case, I specify the port so that postgres will know which instance I want it to connect to.
Carol
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Rebecca Jones wrote:
Greetings, all - Apologies to everyone for contributing an extremely uninteresting and ultra-novice-level question to the community. In fact, if the following question suggests a particular help or research source that can be recommended to me, I would be very grateful to be made aware of it (I have already combed through the online document "PostgreSQL 8.3.4 Documentation" to try and find the answer myself - I think my question is too elemental.) Now that I've installed version 8.3.4 on my WinXP HP laptop, how do I interface with the RDBMS? I know how to start and stop the server, even without really knowing what I'm doing thereby. But when I activate the SQL command window I'm faced with having to supply several parameters that I don't recall setting and haven't a clue why I'd need to set them, i.e. "server", "port", etc. I can live without a hand-holding interface like Access provides, but I need a little middle ground here - what's the application I should be using to create, load, etc. DBs? I do have some SQL experience, but it's all in a canned, administered environment such as host-based DB2 or stand-alone Access. I have no experience as a DBA, so you can see how clueless I truly am ... Thanks for your indulgence, Rebecca Jones |
