making postgres easier to use for novices

[Николай Бочев]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 15:58 -0500, Sean Fenton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 15:30, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
>         This might be a topic for the ubuntu server team to address:
>         http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/postgresql-development-priorities-31886#2783966 
> 
> 
> I recently installed PostgreSQL as part of the installation of OpenERP
> Server [1] on Ubuntu Server 9.04 with no trouble whatsoever. I was
> able to sudo su as the postgres user out of the box. That might be the
> information the thread commenter above was missing.
> 
> I used an excellent tutorial from an OpenERP consulting parter & had
> nary a hiccup [2].
> 
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/openerp-server
> [2] http://www.aulaerp.com/aula/mod/resource/view.php?id=151

The point is exactly that. It's pretty easy to figure it out once you
dig in for 5 minutes in google, but i know many ppl have turned out of
postgres, just because they couldn't manage to log in straight away.
It's a matter of making the script ask for a user/password and changing
one line in pg_hba.conf.
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> WARNING: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security
> Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice.
> They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You
> have no recourse nor protection save to demand reinstatement of the
> Bill of Rights.
> 
> Bill of Rights Defense Committee:
> http://www.bordc.org/threats/spying.php
> Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
> http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html
> -- 
> ubuntu-server mailing list
> ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/attachments/20090615/e843162a/attachment.pgp>