On 16/01/2011 20:56, Steve Litt wrote:
Thanks Dmitriy,

It turns out the solution I used was to su to postgres in Linux, and then run
the command psql without arguments, at which time I could have my way with any
object.

More in my responses to you...

On Sunday 16 January 2011 06:21:28 Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
Hey Steve,

2011/1/16 Steve Litt<sl...@troubleshooters.com>

Hi all,

I've somehow messed up something.

psql super

psql's synopsis is
        psql [option...] [dbname [username]]
Thus, the call "psql super" connects psql to a database
"super" but since username unspecified it is connected
with current Unix user (which is returned by whois(1)).

So, you should call psql like that
   psql super super
slitt@mydesk:~$ psql super super
psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "super"
slitt@mydesk:~$ psql postgres postgres
psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "postgres"
slitt@mydesk:~$

If you have configured PG to listen on a TCP/IP port (5432 by default), you can also do:

  psql -U postgres -h localhost super

Ray.


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