If you want to implement chat rooms/persistent chat or chat logging with Cisco IM and Presence, you need to setup an external postgres server. The setup is relatively easy (I used a ubuntu server), and can be found HERE
The problem I came across was that while testing, I created several chat rooms, then deleted the users who owned those chat rooms. I needed a way to delete those test chat rooms, which needs to be done on the postgres server (since the users no longer existed). Here are the steps I used:
- SSH to postgres server and become the postgres user: su – postgres
- As the postgres user, login to the database: psql -d tcmadb
- To view the chat rooms stored in the database, run: SELECT room_jid FROM tc_rooms;
- I wanted to delete ALL chat rooms previously created, so I truncated the table: TRUNCATE tc_rooms;
- All done! All chat rooms are now deleted. If you want to delete a specific room, you’ll need to select and delete a specific row instead of truncate
Additional useful postgres database commands:
Show all tables: \dt
To quit: \q
Show all rows in a table: \d+ tablename
DANIEL KUCHENSKI 