Re: postgresql setup

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:19:40PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I found out a little more just now.  Having failed to find the debian  
> packager's installation instructions for postgresql I removed the 
> packages from this system.  Later I figured to install everything and 
> take another look.  I used the current sid tasksel and checked data base 
> and hit ok. The installation went error free until after postgresql-doc 
> got installed then tasksel failed with an error code of 255.  So current 
> version of tasksel is not the way to get this done.  I'll check out 
> aptitude and see what if any it can clean up and straighten out then do a 
> command line aptitude command to download and install the rest of what's 
> needed.

What do you need, exactly? For the server basically install the package
postgresql.

Then if you need to add users or manage the database in any way, 

  su - postgres

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