<div dir="ltr">Hi, Andy,<div>Is there a definitive guide on how to set up PostGIS/PostgreSQL for ArcGIS desktop users? Are there definite technical documents or papers on this topic?</div><div>Looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Shao</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 17:56, Andy Anderson <<a href="mailto:aanderson@amherst.edu">aanderson@amherst.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">The postgres database is set up by default by the postgres server and holds configuration information: databases, users, etc. Don’t touch. Set up another database for Arc to use.<div><br></div><div>— Andy<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 21, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <<a href="mailto:bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us" target="_blank">bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_8642027926600262394Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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That’s what I’m talking about. when I first tried to connect to Posters (and the “postgres” named database, I kept getting an error from ArcGIS saying the the “postgres” name for a database was a bad thing, and it wouldn’t connect. After much searching, I
discover that the name, “postgres” for a database wasn’t allowed by the ArcGIS client to connect to.
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<div>As long as you don’t try connecting to the default “postgres” database, all seem to work fine.</div>
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<div>I am confused with this.</div>
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<div>The idea is to use ArcGIS desktops to read data from PostGIS/PostgreSQL.</div>
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<div>How best to configure and make them happy to talk to each other?</div>
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<div>I had to dig fairly deeply into the ESRI site to find this particular explanation for why the service couldn’t/wouldn’t get connected. Just to be clear, we do use logins for accessing the database, we just have chosen to use the “postgres” (named)
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<div>So, I just went and tried to find the refence I found previously, and can’t find it (real quick). Anyway,as long as you don’t try to connect to the “postgres” database, things do seem to work ok.</div>
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<div>Can you point me to excellent technical documentation on what you mentioned, so that I can double-check.</div>
<div>My colleagues have made it working, but there are some issues. For instance, not all ArcGIS desktops can access and retrieve data.</div>
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<div>Looking forward to have more insight into this matter.</div>
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<div>One biggie, is that the ESRI side does not like connecting to the “postgres” named database, claiming it’s a System database (whatever that means). This is not readily available as a limitation either when looking for reasons why it won’t connect.
We’ve been using the “postgres” database name for years (a decade now??) with no ill effects from other applications/ connections. I sort of understand this from the commercial side having worked with other databases like Oracle and MSSQL, but still, there
should be a way to side step this with a setting somewhere.
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<div>I looked high and low for a way to alias the “postgres” database name inside of Postgres, but didn’t find anything very easy to implement or maintain very easily. I did think about setting up another dataabase and using Views to the postgres
database, but that seemed like a bad idea for some reason, along with being somewhat hard to maintain, but upon reflection I keep coming back to the idea.</div>
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<div>All non “postgres” named connections seem to work fine so far. Haven’t implemented anything yet that is really heavy duty as far as loading though, so who knows.</div>
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<div>Anyway, just my 2cents.</div>
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