Apologies for posting on multiple lists, surely will take care of this next time.
Yup adding user=username resolved this. Thanks to 'Laurenz Albe' and you too. Regards - Dev On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > On 02/06/2013 08:09 AM, Dev Kumkar wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am using postgres 9.2 and when executing function dblink facing a fatal >> error while trying to execute dblink_connect as follows: >> >> /SELECT * FROM dblink_connect('host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres >> password=test')/ >> >> *ERROR*: could not establish connection DETAIL: FATAL: password >> authentication failed for user "NETWORK SERVICE" >> >> >> What this error is related to? Do I need to modify pg_hba.conf file by >> any chance? >> >> Thanks.. >> >> > > Do NOT send questions to multiple lists. That is a waste of everybody's > time. So do NOT follow up this email. This question belongs on > pgsql-general. If you have further questions pleease ask there. > > The short answer is that you need to provide the user name in your connect > string. > > cheers > > andrew >