[ale] PostgreSQL DBA Guides

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Tue Sep 20 15:34:58 EDT 2011


Running PostgreSQL right now on UltraSPARC64/Gentoo, supporting a Bacula 
testbed.

On 9/20/11 1:12 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:45, Jim Lynch 
> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com <mailto:ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Like David, I have only used PostgreSQL when some other package
>     required
>     it and configured it.  So I decided I'd take it for a test drive.  I'm
>     fond of PhpMySql so I installed the equivalent for PostgreSQL.  It
>     just
>     doesn't work on Ubuntu 10.04.  I'm thinking PostgreSQL and
>     associated  programs aren't quite mature enough to use.  I'll
>     stick to MySql for now, thanks.
>
>
> LOL!
>
> PostgreSQL has been mature for *years*. Literally. It dates back to 
> the early 1980s.
>
> You should instead be thinking that Ubuntu and its associated 
> packagers aren't quite mature enough to use.  That statement at least 
> has a kernel of truth to it.  phpPgAdmin works just fine when 
> installed by hand.  I am a fan of pgAdminIII myself, if I feel like 
> using a GUI at all. Most of the time, though, I'm running to machines 
> via SSH and hell no, they don't have web based management interfaces 
> running on the Internet. I simply use psql.
>
> And just in case you were wondering, psql is quite mature, too.  :)
>
>
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