Re: Help me start postmaster on a default installation of PostgreSQL.

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:04:33 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 7/07/2011 6:36 PM, Lord Voldemort wrote:
>> I've sorted out things myself.
>>
>> Firstly IMHO this list is the appropriate place for my query as
>> you'd
>> see that what I really want is to use JDBC with PostgreSQL. Running
>> postmaster was supposed to be a way to accomplish that.
>>
>> But as it turns out, newer versions of PostgreSQL have done away
>> with
>> postmaster completely.
>
> Say what?
>
> No, there's still a postmaster. You wouldn't ever be invoking it
> directly, though; you use pg_ctl to control PostgreSQL if you
> installed from source or from the EnterpriseDB packages. For distro
> packages of PostgreSQL you use your distro's service management
> mechanism: the "service" command, /etc/init.d/ scripts, etc.
>
> If you're using distro packages of PostgreSQL, stick to the distro's
> management methods.
>
>> After default installation nothing needs to be
>> changed. Services necessary for backend database access are started
>> automatically at boot-up.
>
> Note that PostgreSQL probably only listens on 127.0.0.1 or it may
> have TCP/IP disabled so it only uses UNIX sockets. You may need to
> alter postgresql.conf if you want to listen on other interfaces.
>
>> After installing libpg-java (that's the JDBC
>> driver package for postgreSQL) all that needs to be done is to add
>> /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar to the java library. I use NetBeans
>> so
>> that was easy for me. I don't know how to do that when running
>> applications from command line using "java /classname/" though.
>
> Use the -classpath argument to the JVM.
>
> Typically, though, you bundle the PostgreSQL JDBC driver within your
> executable JAR and run it with "java -jar myapp.jar", using a
> Main-class: entry in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF to tell Java what the entry
> point class is. This is all basic Java stuff and has nothing to do
> with PostgreSQL, though.
...and for more advanced tasks use urlclassloader, refer to JavaDoc.

Regards,
Radek

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