hi oliver
i tried the following command but nothing seems to work
psql -U root -d root
psql: FATAL:  IDENT authentication failed for user "root"

any suggestions
thanks
jay

Oliver Elphick wrote:

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:36, Jay wrote:


Hi group,
I am trying to get pgsql working on my debian system. I installed pgsql using apt-get. but then i cant connect to it . i am using the following command
psql -U jay -d jaydb


earlier i used create su postgres 'createdb root' jaydb.



Sounds as if you created a database called 'root'.



but now i cannot access the db.
i get the follwing msgs

psql: FATAL: database "jaydb" does not exist



Use "psql -l" to list existing databases.




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