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I want to be able to use databases on my system, and my database of choice is PostgreSQL. This is almost purely a subjective choice, due to the fact that You could probably program everything nicely on the client side. At least with the things I use PostgreSQL for.
And yet again we install packages.
apt-get install postgresql apt-get install php4-pgsql apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl apt-get install postgresql-doc apt-get install webmin-postgresql |
This should provide access to the PostgreSQL database for PHP4 and perl, besides allowing You to administer the server in WebMin.
UNICODE (UTF-8) seems to be the way most Linux distributions are going, so like a bleeting lamb, I'm going to follow suit and select UNICODE as the default encoding for my installation.
This part is about securing the server a bit more than it usually is. When You have first installed the PostgreSQL server You also got a file, /etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf, which has the active content of:
local all ident sameuser host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sameuser host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ident reject |
What we want is to let the postgres user connect to all databases, and each user connect to their own database only. Additionally we want to allow connections to a database using password. This would look something like this:
local sameuser ident sameuser host sameuser 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sameuser local all ident postgres host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident postgres host sameuser 192.168.228.0 255.255.255.0 md5 host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ident reject |
What this does is allow users on the local machine to connect to a database with the same name as the user. It allows the postgres user on the local machine to connect to all databases, and it allows a user on a remote machine in the local network to connect to a database with the same name as the user being used to authenticate (PostgreSQL user).
For the above to work as it's supposed to, we need to map the system postgres user to the PostgreSQL postgres user. This is done in the file /etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf.
The file itself contains a pretty good explanation if it's the default file that is installed by the Debian package.
# MAP IDENT PGUSERNAME postgres postgres postgres |
After this final excersize, we just restart PostgreSQL and everything should now be in order.
The care and maintenance of PostgreSQL itself is a subject fit for another document - or the documentation...
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