Re: unable starting / stopping postgresql with pgAdmin III on OS X

Le 28/12/2009 21:54, Georges Moes a écrit :
> I just refered to the help-file of pgAdmin III.
> Under 'Connect to server' I've found the following description:
> 
> If pgAdmin is running on a Windows machine, it can control the
> postmaster service if you have enough access rights. Enter the name of
> the service. In case of a remote server, it must be prepended by the
> machine name (e.g. PSE1\pgsql-8.0). pgAdmin will automatically discover
> services running on your local machine.
> 
> If pgAdmin is running on a Unix machine, it can control processes
> running on the local machine if you have enough access rights. Enter a
> full path and needed options to access the pg_ctl program. When
> executing service control functions, pgAdmin will append
> status/start/stop keywords to this. Example:
> sudo /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /data/pgsql
> 
> It seems as if I misunderstood that?
> 

No, I did. I didn't remember pgAdmin could do that. Sorry about this.

You should follow Dave's advice; there's a probably something to
configure with sudo.


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