On 12/15/2015 06:24 PM, James Sewell wrote:
> I have a Windows PostgreSQL server where dblink_connect fails to pick up
> the current user as follows:

>     ffm=# SELECT dblink_connect('master', 'dbname=ffm');
>     ERROR:  could not establish connection
>     DETAIL:  FATAL:  role "PRDSWIDEGRID01$" does not exist

> Has anyone seen this before? It seems very odd to me, I have another
> identical machine (except for being on 9.4.0) which this works on.


Do you happen to have a PGUSER variable defined in your environment
(that is, in the environment as seen by the OS user the postmaster runs
under)?

See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/libpq-envars.html

Joe

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