Обсуждение: the installer of postgresql 9.4.1208 and 8.4-703 doesn't start

Hi there!

I am new here around, so please don't laugh at my question. 

I dowloaded the installer but if I double click on that... nothing happens :(. what am I doing wrong? I also turned off the antivirus, just in case but nothing changed. 

Any suggestion?

thank youuuu

what operating system are you running?

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On 07/16/2016 12:20 PM, Stefania Miravalle wrote:
> Hi there!
> I am new here around, so please don't laugh at my question.
>
> I dowloaded the installer but if I double click on that... nothing
> happens :(. what am I doing wrong? I also turned off the antivirus, just
> in case but nothing changed.
>
> Any suggestion?
> thank youuuu

Where did you get the installer?

>
> --
> Stefania


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

I dowloaded the installer but if I double click on that... nothing happens :(. what am I doing wrong? I also turned off the antivirus, just in case but nothing changed. 

the Win x86-32 or win x86-64 links from here http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#windows ?   

the version numbers you give above don't match any I see there.   8.4 isn't even supported anymore, hasn't been for a long time.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

> I dowloaded the installer

The strings "9.4-1208" and "8.4-703" look suspiciously like the PostgreSQL JDBC drivers
(drivers for the Java Programming Language). Perhaps that's not what you wanted?

To install PostgreSQL itself start here:

https://www.postgresql.org/download/

Bye,
Chris.

On 07/16/2016 12:51 PM, Stefania Miravalle wrote:

Please reply to list also.
Ccing list

> from here :)
> https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html#current

Well that is the JDBC driver.

Are you trying to install it?

Or are you trying to install the Postgres server?


>
> 2016-07-16 20:49 GMT+01:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>:
>
>     On 07/16/2016 12:20 PM, Stefania Miravalle wrote:
>
>         Hi there!
>         I am new here around, so please don't laugh at my question.
>
>         I dowloaded the installer but if I double click on that... nothing
>         happens :(. what am I doing wrong? I also turned off the
>         antivirus, just
>         in case but nothing changed.
>
>         Any suggestion?
>         thank youuuu
>
>
>     Where did you get the installer?
>
>
>         --
>         Stefania
>
>
>
>     --
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Stefania Miravalle
> www.stefaniamiravalle.it <http://www.stefaniamiravalle.it>


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

On 07/16/2016 01:03 PM, Stefania Miravalle wrote:
> Oooops, sorry, I will reply to main list too.
>
> So I just downloaded and instelled SQL Workbench/J as my it department
> said, to help me with sql queries.
> they also told me "Download a JDBC driver that will enable SQL
> Workbench/J to connect to your cluster. Currently we recommends this
> version 8 JDBC driver:
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-8.4-703.jdbc4.jar
>
> I did it but I am not an expert, therefore I supposed I had to install
> it. Am I wrong?

No, you are not wrong. You will need the jar file for SQL Workbench/J.

To  install see here:
http://www.sql-workbench.net/getting-started.html

Configuring the database (JDBC) drivers


>
> thank you!
>


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

So I just downloaded and instelled SQL Workbench/J as my it department said, to help me with sql queries.

they also told me "Download a JDBC driver that will enable SQL Workbench/J to connect to your cluster. Currently we recommends this version 8 JDBC driver: http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-8.4-703.jdbc4.jar

I did it but I am not an expert, therefore I supposed I had to install it. Am I wrong?

a .jar file is a java package, they are used as-is, most typically by specifying them in the CLASSPATH when you start a Java program.   As Adrian said, in this case, you configure sql workbench/j to use it, rather than installing it in your OS like regular programs.

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