Archive for the ‘PostgreSQL’ Category
Change PostgreSQL Locale
wrote by Rafael Marangoni, from Suporte Linux team.
This article explains how to change the default PostgreSQL Locale. Be careful, because we’re considering that you do not have data on postgresql instance.
First, we need to stop the postgres service (if was not already stopped):
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
Then we need to remove all data files from postgresql data dir. On RedHat based, that’s the dir:
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data/*
Now we change to postgres user:
su postgres
Creating the initial data, selecting the Locale:
initdb –locale=C /var/lib/pgsql/data
or
initdb –locale=pt_BR.UTF-8 /var/lib/pgsql/data
or your locale
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
Then, we start postgres service:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
Configure PostgreSQL to accept connections from network
wrote by Rafael Marangoni, from Consultoria Linux team.
By default, on some distros, PostgreSQL will only accept connections from localhost. When you have only access from localhost (from localhost Apache, by example) everything is ok, but when you need that postgresql accepts connections for other hosts, you need to make some configs.
First of all, edit the postgresql.conf file (on CentOS the default location is /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf).
vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
Search the following line:
listen_addresses = ‘localhost’
Change it to:
listen_addresses = ‘*’
Secondly, you need to change the permissions inside pg_hba.conf file (on CentOS, the default location is /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf)
vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
Include the following line (at the end of the file):
host username all 192.168.0.10/32 md5
Where:
username: it’s the name of the postgres user
all: the database name (here we enabled all of them)
192.168.0.10/32: is the IP address/subnet to accept connections
md5: is the method of authentication (md5 requests password)