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Re: Postgress installation...



On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:37:38AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> First log in as the postgres super-user (generally, username is
> postgres) and do:

best way to do that is from root, just "su postgres" where no
password will be needed. (don't hafta mess with your /etc/passwd
file at all in this case.)

curious: would
	psql -u template1
	User: postgres
	Password: <none>
work?

> psql
> create user nacho with password xxxxx createdb;
> 
> which will allow user nacho to create databases.
> 
> There's a lot of good documentation for postgresql in the postgres-doc
> package, or via www.postgresql.org. There's a new book by Bruce Momjian
> which is available online via the website.

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