On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Raphaël Enrici wrote:
So, since version 1.4.0 it's now possible to use the local unix socket to
connect to the database, you just need to enter the path to the PostgreSQL
socket instead of an IP adress. Under Debian, just enter
/var/run/postgresql in the adress field of pgAdmin III connection window.
This is great. I think one think is just missing:
This has to be documented on an easy to find place.
It would be even better if this would be the default if the address field
would be empty. Moreover it makes no real sense to check the box
"remember password" if there is no password at all and pgadmin3 remembers
the (not existing password) only if you check this field.
I must check this on a Debian/sid environment, I only have sarge here. I
Well, I did it on an Etch (testing) system.
managed to get the pg_hba.conf and rest of the files edited in pgadmin3 by
launching pgadmin3 in sudo:
sudo -H -u postgres pgadmin3
Well, "in principle yes". I do not allow sudo for many applications
and do not really want to fidle around with my sudo config. But I
did manually what sudo does here.
Can you confirm you are able to connect to a local database as explained
previously until I come back to you after some tests under sid.
As stated above: yes.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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