Re: off topic: how to "start" Glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:22 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: 
> Strangely enough, you're sending this to the list owner.

Ah, that's my fault, sorry. I've fixed the CC.

>  Even though it
> looks like your address book entry is 'glom-devel-list', the address you
> sent it to is 'glom-devel-list-owner'. You probably wanted to send this
> to the list, instead of the list owner (and the GNOME list moderators).
> Please correct the CC on any replies.
>
> And, I don't know much about postgreSQL, but if it's anything like
> mysql, the problem you're describing is probably because the user you
> are connecting to the database as does not have permission to create the
> tables

Yes, and that's mentioned in the instructions. Nicolas, did you do that?

> --
> Ross
>
> On อ., 2005-11-01 at 11:48 +0100, Nicolas Chevreux wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Murray Cumming wrote in an email dated 31-Oct-05 21:32:
> > > It's on that web site page, under "Allowing access"
> >
> > Ok, I did what was written there. It helped a bit, but still not all the 
> > way. Here is what happens:
> >
> > 1. Click on "Open Example", select the "smallbusiness" example.
> >
> > 2. enter the user and password defined for Postgres.
> >
> > 3. I get:
> >
> > Database does not exist
> > The database does not yet exist on the database server. Would you like 
> > to create the database with an empty structure?
> >
> > 4. Click on "create"
> >
> > 5. I get
> >
> > "ERROR:  permission denied to create database"
> >
> > Same thing happens if I run Glom as root. ("sudo Glom").
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Once again, sorry for using this devel list to ask these questions. I'll 
> > gladly write a small guide for newbies as soon as I can get Glom running.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Nicolas