Re: Where do I enter commands?

I'd greatly prefer a GUI. It seems like a command-line tool would be
incredibly tedious when creating tables, modifying them, filling them with
data, etc. Thanks.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> David Blomstrom
>> Writer & Web Designer (Mac, M$ & Linux)
>> www.geobop.org <http://www.geobop.org>
>>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>

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