Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:23:21AM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> El Mar 30 Dic 2003 02:49, Bret Busby escribió:

> > And, if a person did not already have it installed and set up, would the
> > person then have not been required to find elsewhere, how to do those?
>
> The question then is: "How difficult is it for a newbie to get PostgreSQL
> started on a RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Mandrake,... Linux?"

It may be very simple for you and me, but remember that nowadays the
Linux distros come with "ident sameuser" authentication preconfigured.
Someone, somewhere, has to tell them to create a database for themselves
and how to do that, and that they need to use the postgres user to do
it. It's not rocket science, but for a true newbie it's impossible
(those guys rarely read manuals, remember).

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