You can use DBI to connect to a remote db -- just specify a dsn of something like dbi:Pg:host=192.168.123.123;port=5432;dbname=foo ... Note that the default post for postgres is 5432, but you must have it in your /usr/local/etc/pg_hba.conf file to allow outside connections. If you don't (or can't) have outside connections, you can get around it easily with a ssh tunnel (though it can be inconvenient).

You can also install the postgres odbc drivers so that you can connect from your windows box (e.g. using MS Access).

As for determining versions, uname -a and rpm -qa | grep redhat and rpm -qa | grep postgres and psql --version are good quick-and-dirty places to start...

In reply to Re: Querying Postgres DB on Linux from Windows by davidrw
in thread Querying Postgres DB on Linux from Windows by bkiahg

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