Unable to setup postgres on ubuntu (8.4 on 9.10)
- by shabda
I am trying to setup postgres on ubuntu, and I cant proceed as I cant find the location of pg_hba.conf
(Postgres 8.4 on ubuntu 9.10)
What I did
setup postgres via aptitude
This gave me ...
/usr/share/postgresql/8.4# aptitude install postgresql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libreadline5{a} postgresql postgresql-8.4{a} postgresql-client-8.4{a} postgresql-client-common{a} postgresql-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/5,159kB of archives. After unpacking 18.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libreadline5.
(Reading database ... 17490 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libreadline5 (from .../libreadline5_5.2-6_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-client-common.
Unpacking postgresql-client-common (from .../postgresql-client-common_101_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-client-8.4.
Unpacking postgresql-client-8.4 (from .../postgresql-client-8.4_8.4.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-common.
Unpacking postgresql-common (from .../postgresql-common_101_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-8.4.
Unpacking postgresql-8.4 (from .../postgresql-8.4_8.4.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql.
Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_8.4.1-1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libreadline5 (5.2-6) ...
Setting up postgresql-client-common (101) ...
Setting up postgresql-client-8.4 (8.4.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/man1/psql.1.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man1/psql.1.gz (psql.1.gz) in auto mode.
Setting up postgresql-common (101) ...
Setting up postgresql-8.4 (8.4.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/man1/postmaster.1.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man1/postmaster.1.gz (postmaster.1.gz) in auto mode.
Setting up postgresql (8.4.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
tried to login as
su - postgres
Followed by
createdb mytestdb
This failed with
could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
So I though I need to enable local connections in pg_hba.conf, which I cant find. So I created a new file as
sudo vim /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf
With values
local all all ident
But I still cant login after restarting the service. What are next steps for me to take.
