diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cde4c4809f4543938cf11b10216ad8683c11e80d..510b084fcb9ede530d61a47335703a1c9dd10ded 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Postgres superuser. See the postgres man page. So, for example, you can login as the Postgres superuser and issue the command: - % postgres -S -D/usr/lib/postgres/postgres_data -p5432 + % postmaster -S -D/usr/lib/postgres/postgres_data -p5432 This says to run the postmaster against the database system created above, to accept connections from users on the conventional TCP port 5432, and @@ -232,12 +232,15 @@ daemon is running, and the regression tests have passed, you'll want to see Postgres95 do something. That's easy. Invoke the interactive interface to Postgres95, psql, and start typing SQL: - % psql -d/usr/lib/postgres_data template1 + % psql -p 5432 template1 (psql has to open a particular database, but at this point the only one that exists is the template1 database, which always exists. We will connect to it only long enough to create another one and switch to it). +Note that we have told psql to connect to Port 5432, which is what we told +the postmaster to listen on when we started it above. + The response from psql is: type \? for help on slash commands