Re: Unable to login

Hi!

You can swap your primary email yourself, from
https://www.postgresql.org/account/profile/ -- just change it in the
dropdown and save. The current primary one then gets moved to secondary
automatically.

//Magnus

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 at 07:39, Aryan Sharma <aryansharma1323(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yes, I figured I could log back in by adding my email alias (
> aryansharma1323+dev(at)gmail(dot)com) back to GitHub, making it primary, and
> using the GitHub signup. My current email (without +dev) is still listed as
> my secondary email though. If this could become my primary email, it saves
> me some extra steps of setting primary email on GitHub before login, but
> this won't be a big issue.
>
> Thank you for your time :)
>
> Aryan Sharma
>
> ᐧ
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi1
>>
>> Ah, that would explain it. I can't find an account for your email at all,
>> so I assume you already got it sorted, with that switch-and-switch-back on
>> github?
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 at 09:16, Aryan Sharma <aryansharma1323(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > That means that the address on your google account is attached as a
>>> secondary ddress on a different account. You need to log in using that
>>> account, and either remove it there, or swap which address is primary (only
>>> the primary address can be used for logging in).
>>>
>>> Just discovered the issue - my GitHub account used `+dev` suffix in
>>> primary email until a few weeks back. I updated the primary email to not
>>> use this suffix. Since this email is listed as secondary in my PostgreSQL
>>> account, I couldn't login from any tool (GitHub or Google). Password reset
>>> didn't work either. Is it possible that my primary email gets updated
>>> to my secondary email address? This should fix the problem. The other
>>> option is that I revert my GitHub account's primary email back to `+dev`
>>> suffix but I'm migrating away from it so I'd rather avoid it.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Aryan Sharma
>>>
>>> ᐧ
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 2:32 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2026 at 17:38, Aryan Sharma <aryansharma1323(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't been able to sign in to my PostgreSQL account using Google
>>>>> OAuth. On signing in with my email, I get redirected to https://www.
>>>>> postgresql.org/account/signup/oauth/ which redirects me to:
>>>>>
>>>>> > OAuth error:
>>>>> > This email address is already attached to a different account.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried logging in with GitHub and Google accounts and see the same
>>>>> error. Also tried resetting my password, but I didn't receive any email.
>>>>> Could someone help me recover my account?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your time
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> That means that the address on your google account is attached as a
>>>> secondary ddress on a different account. You need to log in using that
>>>> account, and either remove it there, or swap which address is primary (only
>>>> the primary address can be used for logging in).
>>>>
>>>> //Magnus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>