Re: Where do I enter commands?

On 10/24/2015 07:20 PM, David Blomstrom wrote:
> I'm on a Mac running OS X El Capitain. I think I installed PostgreSQL
> 9.5 after following the links to
> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#osx

Well the tutorial is geared to using the command line to run programs.

Are you comfortable with the command line or would you prefer to use a
GUI like pgAdmin?

>
> I just learned about phpPGAdmin and installed it as well. But when I
> navigate to localhost/phppgadmin, I get a "not found" error message.
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Adrian Klaver
> <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/2015 06:21 PM, David Blomstrom wrote:
>
> I just installed PostgreSQL and started reading the tutorial @
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/tutorial-createdb.html
> and was
> snowed at square one. To create a database, I'm supposed to type the
> following command:
>
> $ createdb mydb
>
> But it doesn't say where I'm supposed to type it. When I click
> on the
> PostgreSQL icon in my taskbar, a program called pgAdminIII opens up.
> I've clicked File, Edit, Plugins, etc., but I don't see any
> clues about
> where I'm supposed to type commands.
>
>
> So lets backup up a bit:
>
> 1) What OS are you on?
>
> 2) How did you install Postgres?
>
> 3) What version of Postgres?
> Hope it is not 8.0 implied by the doc link above.
>
>
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> Adrian Klaver
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>
>
>
>
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> David Blomstrom
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