Installation - SuSE 9.0

[Stephen Salbod]

Good Evening,
I'm trying to get Postgresql to work on my laptop. Using YaST I installed
the package. I examined the installation instructions, but could not make
any sense of them. I'm coming from a Windows background. Even so, I could
tell the instruction leave a lot to desire for a newbie. I started using
the kconsole, I begin in my directory (/home/me). I feel I am missing
something that every Linux user knows but a Windows user wouldn't, for
example, what is a super user? My main question is how do I get Postgresql
running. I want to learn it! Any help toward this goal shall be appreciated.

Thank you--Steve
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[Peter Eisentraut]

Stephen Salbod wrote:

I'm trying to get Postgresql to work on my laptop. Using YaST I
installed the package. I examined the installation instructions, but
could not make any sense of them. I'm coming from a Windows
background. Even so, I could tell the instruction leave a lot to
desire for a newbie. I started using the kconsole, I begin in my
directory (/home/me). I feel I am missing something that every Linux
user knows but a Windows user wouldn't, for example, what is a super
user? My main question is how do I get Postgresql running. I want to
learn it! Any help toward this goal shall be appreciated.

It should already be running if you installed via YaST. Try "psql -l"
to see if you can contact the server. Otherwise try
"/etc/init.d/postgresql start" as root. That script is a wrapper
around the postmaster and pg_ctl programs that you see referenced in
the documentation, so you should mentally substitute that when reading
about starting or stopping the server.
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[Peter Eisentraut]

Stephen Salbod wrote:

I'm trying to get Postgresql to work on my laptop. Using YaST I
installed the package. I examined the installation instructions, but
could not make any sense of them. I'm coming from a Windows
background. Even so, I could tell the instruction leave a lot to
desire for a newbie. I started using the kconsole, I begin in my
directory (/home/me). I feel I am missing something that every Linux
user knows but a Windows user wouldn't, for example, what is a super
user? My main question is how do I get Postgresql running. I want to
learn it! Any help toward this goal shall be appreciated.

It should already be running if you installed via YaST. Try "psql -l"
to see if you can contact the server. Otherwise try
"/etc/init.d/postgresql start" as root. That script is a wrapper
around the postmaster and pg_ctl programs that you see referenced in
the documentation, so you should mentally substitute that when reading
about starting or stopping the server.
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