on 8/31/06 12:53 PM, Tom Lane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Jeffrey J. Early" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It turns out the problem is with launching postmaster via pg_ctl -- in fact,
>> pg_ctl seems to do this user authentication test, but postmaster doesn't. So
>> I found that if I launch pos
"Jeffrey J. Early" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It turns out the problem is with launching postmaster via pg_ctl -- in fact,
> pg_ctl seems to do this user authentication test, but postmaster doesn't. So
> I found that if I launch postmaster directly, no problem. Nice security :-)
The postmaster
John,
Hey thanks! I figured out the answer while responding to your suggestion. I
had started to write:
Yes, I gave that a shot too, but it didn't work. The problem isn't
connecting to the database, but just launching postmaster (with pg_ctl)
pointing to that database cluster. Launching fails if
I'm assuming you are running initdb without specifying a user name
(and thus it defaults to the current user). Have you tried running
initdb (and connecting with) a single user name, e.g. postgres?
I'm not sure if it will work, but maybe worth a shot.
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey J.
on 8/31/06 7:26 AM, Tom Lane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Jeffrey J. Early" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have an embedded application on MacOS X that bundles the postgresql apps
>> and a database cluster with the OSX application, but am running into
>> troubles when trying to launch the appl
"Jeffrey J. Early" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an embedded application on MacOS X that bundles the postgresql apps
> and a database cluster with the OSX application, but am running into
> troubles when trying to launch the application under different usernames.
> In particular, if I creat
I have an embedded application on MacOS X that bundles the postgresql apps
and a database cluster with the OSX application, but am running into
troubles when trying to launch the application under different usernames.
In particular, if I create a database with 'initdb' under a username user1,
I ca
