Re: How should the first step of PostgreSQL implementation should be? (revised)

On 27 Sep 2009, at 10:44, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote:

> RB>I forgot to show you that I've done these steps too:
> postgres=# ALTER ROLE ivia WITH LOGIN;
> ALTER ROLE
> postgres=# alter user ivia with password '<<my password>>';
> ALTER ROLE
> postgres=# alter user ivia with login;
> ALTER ROLE
> postgres=# commit;
> WARNUNG: keine Transaktion offen
> COMMIT
> postgres=# \q
> sussy:~ # psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U ivia -W
> Password for user ivia:
> psql: FATAL: Datenbank »ivia« existiert nicht
> sussy:~ #

You didn't specify a database to connect to. By default psql tries to
connect to a database named after the login user, in this case "ivia".
You probably want to connect to the database named "postgres" that's
created by default (at the initdb step).

Alban Hertroys

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