Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Argh, I had "phpbb" in my env ( ~/.login) too: setenv PGDATA /var/postgresql/data setenv PGDATABASE phpbb setenv PGHOST /var/www/tmp setenv PGUSER phpbb Now everything makes sense (I was thinking about some kind of system table for default databases). Sorry an

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I do specify the database username: > > h754814:afarber {109} psql --help | grep -w user > -U NAME database user name (default: "phpbb") > > h754814:afarber {110} psql -U punbb > psql: FATAL: database "phpbb" does not ex

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On 1/30/06, Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > h754814:afarber {103} psql -U punbb > > psql: FATAL: database "phpbb" does not exist > > psql uses your Unix username as the default database if you don't > specify one. but I do s

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I've created a user and a database both wrongly named "phpbb". > After that I have renamed both to "punbb" using "ALTER DATABASE" > and "ALTER USER". Now everything works fine, except I always > have to specify the database when connecting

[GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I've created a user and a database both wrongly named "phpbb". After that I have renamed both to "punbb" using "ALTER DATABASE" and "ALTER USER". Now everything works fine, except I always have to specify the database when connecting (both using psql or the PQconnectdb() from my C-program):