re: postgresql setup

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

This gets stranger by the second.  I managed to get postgresql going as 
user postgres with postgresql -h 127.0.0.1 & <cr>.  Then I was able to run 
createuser dashielljt successfully and createdb too.  So I exited the 
postgres identity and dropped back to dashielljt and tried psql -h 
127.0.0.1 and psql asked if connections were being accepted locally on 
127.0.0.1 and would not run.  so I go back to postgres and ran psql -s and 
got psql up.  I tried \i basics.sql in the 
/usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-8.3 tutorial directory and perfectly useable 
sql queries came up and ran on a weather table several operations for San 
Fransisco and Hayward.  So I'm pretty sure something needs configuring and 
then it will run.  I've been warned about localhost and maybe the warning 
is correct even without an ssh server installed.