Hello,
First of all, I've updated the How to Set Up an Esri Geoportal Server article for version 1.2.2 and it should be published as a whitepaper soon. I got 1.2.2 to work with PostgreSQL 9.1.5, Apache Tomcat 7.0.29, Java SE 7 Update 05 JDK (however, Java 7 is not officially supported), and JDBC Config file postgresql-9.1-902.jdbc4.jar. I'll post a link to the whitepaper in this thread when it's available.
Having no tables in the geoportal schema most likely means that the create_schema_pg command didn't run successfully. If you entered the command correctly, then you may be running into permission issues. Fortunately, the scripts generate logs that can help us find out what went wrong.
The log files (Geoportal_schema.txt and grants_pg.txt) are located in the same folder as the scripts themselves, which, if you followed the ArcUser article instructions, are located in C:\geoportal\Database Scripts\PostgreSQL\. If you would please post those files I'll take a look and see if I can spot what's going on.
Also, PostgreSQL generates its own logs that may be useful. In the default installation, they're located in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data\pg_log\. You'll probably have a lot of .log files in this folder; the one you want is most likely the one with the largest file size. For example, mine is 8 KB while most of the other were only 2 KB.
The lack of the Administrator tab could be caused by a lot of things, including the missing tables in PostgreSQL. Here are some possibilities:
[INDENT]Not being logged into the geoportal[/INDENT]
[INDENT]ldapAdapter section not fully commented out in the gpt.xml file[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Typos in the geoportal.xml file[/INDENT]
Note: the ldapAdapter section of the gpt.xml file in 1.2.2 has two commented sections in it, whereas 1.1.1 and earlier only had one. Both these sections needed to be uncommented for the whole ldapAdapter section to be commented out correctly.
I hope this helps!
Richard