Comments on: PostgreSQL add or create a user account and grant permission for database

By: David

David — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:13:24 +0000

Cryptic is your brain !!!

By: Ralph Siegler

Ralph Siegler — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:43:18 +0000

Nonsense, GNU/Linux admin is much easier than Windows. I speak as former Windows and Metaframe admin. The Windows admins at my employer spend more time by a factor of three to admin each windows box as I do with all the Linux boxes together. The command line admin of postgresql in windows is the same, or you can use GUI tools to admin it the same way in Windows as Linux. What you are really saying is you only want to stay with one way of doing things without learning any better way. Windows is totally crippled and featureless compared to what GNU/Linux can do, and is slower and requires twice the RAM for a given job. And to show my objectiveness, there are even better OS than Linux, the BSD for example like FreeBSD or OpenBSD are of even higher quality, or OpenSolaris. All those can also run Postgresql, though FreeBSD would probably be the fastest.

By: JACOB OBINGUAR

JACOB OBINGUAR — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:43:45 +0000

Hi! I am new to PostgreSQL. This page has so much help! Thanks a lot!!! Just one more question, how do give additional roles to the user you have created like (create role, create db etc..)? Once again, thanks!

By: suhail

suhail — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:16:37 +0000

just wanted to add

to create with UTF8 :-

CREATE DATABASE example WITH ENCODING ‘UTF8′;

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:30:03 +0000

Great instructions. Thank you very much! On to figure out how to login to the database via PHP…

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:45:37 +0000

Jaysunn, PostgreSQL[1] evolved from the Ingres project at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982, the project leader, Michael Stonebraker, left Berkeley to make a proprietary version of Ingres. He returned to Berkeley in 1985 and started a post-Ingres project to address the problems with contemporary database systems that had become increasingly clear during the early 1980s. The new project, Postgres, aimed to add the fewest features needed to completely support types. These features included the ability to define types and to fully describe relationships – something used widely before but maintained entirely by the user. In Postgres, the database "understood" relationships, and could retrieve information in related tables in a natural way using rules. Postgres used many of the ideas of Ingres, but not its code. [1] Source: Wikipedia HTH

By: Jaysunn

Jaysunn — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:53:20 +0000

Vivek,
I used this great quick tutorial to get me out of a place that I was unfamiliar with. Thanks!!!

Question 1. what the heck does postgressql mean, the name?
I see post, but gre? Maybe you know?

jaysunn

By: Josh M.

Josh M. — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:29:35 +0000

Funny thing is you wouldn’t even need instructions to do this stuff in Windows. But in a cryptic Linux OS nothing is obvious.

By: parth

parth — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:34:27 +0000

write the same commands in cmd or just use “pgadmin” to do this stuff

Njoy :)

By: gnubala

gnubala — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:32:38 +0000

using \du command we can see the list of users which we have created

By: lakshmi

lakshmi — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:04:54 +0000

this information is gud but their should be continuation to another relevant topic

By: gnubala

gnubala — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:19:31 +0000

i need help
i need to see how many users have created. is it possible?
is any command is there for listing the users in postgres?

By: drone115b

drone115b — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:54:00 +0000

So how do you query the permissions a user has? It seems naturaly that, after changing these settings a careful admin will want to verify them.

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:51:39 +0000

And to undo:

REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE jerry FROM tom;
DROP USER tom
DROP DATABASE jerry

By: SIFE

SIFE — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:29:06 +0000

@Mike
go to:
start->programs->postgreSQL 8.*->SQL shell
login with your postgres user and password then type this commands in this order :
CREATE USER win;
CREATE DATABASE test;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE test to win;

change win to a defined user by you ,and test to a database you want .

By: AfroSoft

AfroSoft — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:55:29 +0000

@Arteal
This is where windows informations can come useful.

By: joshg

joshg — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:57:21 +0000

Great, simple and concise. Thanks a lot.

By: cam

cam — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:59:26 +0000

Awesome worked a treat thanks a lot. :D

By: Arteal

Arteal — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:34:16 +0000

This is great beginner’s help, thanks :) But Will be great to explain here how to setup pqsql user without creating UNIX user, because i seem this as not so great resolution to create UNIX user for every pgsql user. Anyway, thanks for help once more :)

By: semuta

semuta — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:40:17 +0000

Thank you for the concise commands.