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

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [JDBC] Help me start postmaster on a default installation
of PostgreSQL.
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:03:03 +0530
From: Lord Voldemort <murderthemuggles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>

Thanks for taking interest Kevin.

Here's a re-statement of my problem:

What I'm trying to achieve:-
To run postmaster service, so that I can access database using JDBC. I
am a student learning Java and I don't want a very customized setup.
Anything that's sufficient for demo programs will do.

EXACT PostgreSQL version:-
PostgreSQL 8.4.8 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5, 32-bit

I downloaded PostgreSQL package from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
maverick-updates/main i386 Packages. That's the maverick-updates repository.

Changes made to the settings in the postgresql.conf file: None

OS details:
Ubuntu 10.10
Linux 2.6.35-30-generic

As per your suggestion giving the command

sudo service postgresql-8.4 start

results in
postgresql-8.4: unrecognized service

Actually I did start the server using pgAdminIII. I read about that
somewhere.

Please help me 'coz I'm trying hard without any success. Most of the
reference materials/tutorials I've looked up refer to folders that don't
even exist on my system (eg. /usr/local/pgsql).