Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "xxxx"

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Taylor
or account. So I'm just running it as the guest user. But I still don't understand why psql works when run in a windows administrator account, but stops working as such when I add another user. This has me really baffled. Can someone please enlighten me (and the rest of us)? - Steve Quoting

[GENERAL] psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "xxxx"

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Taylor
Hi. I installed PostgreSQL 8.1.2 on Windows XP Pro. I started psql (via the start menu) and created a user. Then I exited psql using \q. Then I tried to start it again and got: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" and the command window closed. I don't understand what