Re: REALLY stupid question

Rebecca Jones wrote:
> Greetings, all -
>
> Apologies to everyone for contributing an extremely uninteresting and ultra-novice-level question to the community.
Infact, if the following question suggests a particular help or research source that can be recommended to me, I would
bevery grateful to be made aware of it (I have already combed through the online document "PostgreSQL 8.3.4
Documentation"to try and find the answer myself - I think my question is too elemental.) 
>
> Now that I've installed version 8.3.4 on my WinXP HP laptop, how do I interface with the RDBMS?  I know how to start
andstop the server, even without really knowing what I'm doing thereby.  But when I activate the SQL command window I'm
facedwith having to supply several parameters that I don't recall setting and haven't a clue why I'd need to set them,
i.e."server", "port", etc.  I can live without a hand-holding interface like Access provides, but I need a little
middleground here - what's the application I should be using to create, load, etc. DBs? 
>
> I do have some SQL experience, but it's all in a canned, administered environment such as host-based DB2 or
stand-aloneAccess.  I have no experience as a DBA, so you can see how clueless I truly am ... 
>
> Thanks for your indulgence,
> Rebecca Jones
>
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A perfectly reasonable Q. Personally I use phpPgAdmin which is a web-based
admin interface, there a a whole lot of other normal desktop applications
you can use but I don't use them and  don't know which to recommend,
perhaps someone else could advise...