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Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?



On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:57:29PM +0200, Tom wrote:
> [11/07/2005 -- 16:41u] Clive Menzies:
> 
> > > Firstly, the su-to-postgres doesn't seem to work.
> > > 
> > > I hope I'm not overlooking something very obvious, or otherwise asking
> > > the wrong questions, but could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > Not really answering your question directly nor being in anyway expert
> > having just installed postgresql for the first time just recently, I did
> > the following as postgres:
> > 
> > $ psql 
> > 
> > and then created created users using SQL.
> 
> The longer this takes, the more I'm getting afraid I'm missing something
> obvious, but what do you mean with "as postgres"? How do you become that
> user...? It's login shell is /bin/false -- if I knew how to issue
> commands in postgres' name, the README.Debian.gz approach (createuser)
> would work too, but that's exactly the problem... *g*

I think you have two options here:

createuser -U postgres youruser

Or

psql -U postgres template1

And then:
CREATE USER youruser;

(The -U option allows you to connect as another user)

Tim

> 
> Thanks though,
> Tom
> 
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