"Lane Van Ingen" <lvaningen(at)esncc(dot)com> writes:
> We created our PostgreSQL instance by compiling it from source, and the
> instance is working just fine. User postgres runs the service; we do not
> know what the password is, and we think it got created automatically by the
> compile / install process.
Are you sure it even *has* a password? In the default RPM installation,
user postgres is created without any password --- the only way to become
postgres is to su there from root, and if you've got root you hardly
need to crack into postgres.
regards, tom lane