Re: Invalid User ID: 0

What account is the postmaster service running under? Postgres or someother account?

What version of postgres and windows is this running on?

Mike
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:14:05AM +0800, Howard Bagcat wrote:
> Anyone,
>
> I am troubled on logging on to my postgresql running under Cygwin. Postmaster says, "Fatal: Invalid User ID 0" after connecting. I
> know for sure that the username that I am using to log is existing. Thinking that having a new user will solve the problem, I
> tried creating a new user but same error was displayed. I tried working on psql in the hope that I can connect to postgresql but
> the same has occured.
>
> I checked the Postmaster if it can determine the availability of the database in the system catalog by logging on to a
> non-existing database and the Postmaster says, "Fatal: database "foo" does not exist in the system catalog". But as I tried to
> connect to an existing database, "Invalid User ID 0" showed up. It seems to me that pgsql users' database have been corrupted.
>
> BTW, postmaster started without errors.
>
> Your guiding ideas and tips are highly appreciated.
>
> PS. The database that I am trying to connect to is a production database working for 3 days and in a snap back-up cannot be
> created due to the above problem. Hope anyone of you can help.
>
> Kumusta, Howard
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