Setting up pgadmin 4
Setting up pgadmin 4 install#
To install PostgreSQL follow these steps: The next step is to install PostgreSQL on your computer. Follow the installation instructions that are provided, and accept all default setting.Once the install files have downloaded, double click to open and begin the install.Click on the download link for the most recent version of the install files (e.g.Scroll down the page a short ways, and under pgAdmin 4 click on the link for your operating system.
In a future post I’ll provide an in depth review of pgAdmin and DBeaver, a free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. pgAdmin is a free general user interface (GUI) for administering PostgreSQL databases and interacting with the data within. While there are several ways to create a PostgreSQL database, for this post we are going to use pgAdmin for this purpose. If you are not familiar with version control using Git and GitHub, I recommend going back and working through the hands on tutorials in my series on version control starting with “ Version Control: An Overview.” Creating a PostgreSQL Database
If you’d like an overview of database software then see the post Databases and Data Management Systems. Since data analysis and management are best learned by doing, the objective of this and future posts is to get readers hands on experience using PostgreSQL and R. In this post, we’ll install pgAdmin and PostgreSQL, and create a database. In the previous post I introduced the learning-data-science GitHub repository, defined forking a repository, and provided instructions for forking the learning-data-science repository and cloning it to your computer.