I'm bringing this from another post, because I've narrowed down the problem considerably, and it no longer corresponds neither to the headline nor to the content of that post.
the following works fine, creating a valid connection: connection = psycopg2.connect(database="test_db", user="test", password="xxxxxx", host="xxxx-994.postgres.pythonanywhere-services.com", port=10994) the following fails: db = DAL("postgres://test:xxxxxx?!@xxxx-994.postgres.pythonanywhere-services.com:10994/test_db", pool_size=configuration.get('db.pool_size'), migrate_enabled=configuration.get('db.migrate'), check_reserved=['all']) <class 'RuntimeError'> Failure to connect, tried 5 times: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/base.py", line 457, in __init__ self._adapter = adapter(**kwargs) File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/postgres.py", line 27, in __call__ return AdapterMeta.__call__(cls, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/__init__.py", line 39, in __call__ obj = super(AdapterMeta, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/postgres.py", line 54, in __init__ driver_args, adapter_args, do_connect, after_connection) File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/base.py", line 369, in __init__ super(SQLAdapter, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/base.py", line 53, in __init__ self.reconnect() File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/helpers/classes.py", line 181, in _reconnect_and_configure self._connection_reconnect() File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/connection.py", line 174, in reconnect self.connection = self.connector() File "/home/vladtseytkin/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters/postgres.py", line 118, in connector return self.driver.connect(**self.driver_args) File "/home/vladtseytkin/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 126, in connect conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync) psycopg2.OperationalError: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "test" The password is correct. It can't possibly fail. Besides the password working in the db itself, t's the same very password that also works in psycopg2.connect() call above. How can I debug it further? What am I missing? What could be the reason? I am getting exactly same problem (working for psycopg2.connect and not working for DAL constructor with exactly same error) when 1) doing it from web2py under PythonAnywhere and 2) web2py under my local windows PC (when local, running the ssh tunnel, as prescribed elsewhere). Please help! -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/fdc66dd4-9846-4d4f-bb1c-490868f3e8a2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.