Authentication & connection problems

Hi!

I've got some problems with PostgreSQL v8.1.3 . My system is Windows XP
Professional Edition.

Here's the deal. For example, when trying to connect to an existing databas,
or even
creating a new one with the command createdb [dbname],
different error occurs.

Another example: when running the command psql,
entering the password and hitting enter,
the following error message occur:

psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "Christo"

Similarly, when testing the TCP/IP connection with the
command psql -U DATABASENAME -W -h localhost the following message shows up

psql: FATAL: database "dspace" does not exist

Do You have any ideas of what the problem could be?

Appreciate the effort!

Best Regards,
Christo

> Here's the deal. For example, when trying to connect to an existing
> databas, or even
> creating a new one with the command createdb [dbname],
> different error occurs.

What errors exactly? We can't guess..

> Another example: when running the command psql,
> entering the password and hitting enter,
> the following error message occur:
>
> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "Christo"

Unless you created the user as "Christo" you should use christo -
postgresql is case insensitive unless you put it in quotes.

> Similarly, when testing the TCP/IP connection with the
> command psql -U DATABASENAME -W -h localhost the following message shows up
> psql: FATAL: database "dspace" does not exist

-U is for username, not database name.

Since you're not specifying a database name, it will try to use the
same as the username (which you're passing in incorrectly).

So that's the same as:

psql -U dbname -W -h localhost dbname

which is probably not what you want.

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On 5/1/06, chris smith <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Here's the deal. For example, when trying to connect to an existing
> > databas, or even
> > creating a new one with the command createdb [dbname],
> > different error occurs.
>
> What errors exactly? We can't guess..
>
> > Another example: when running the command psql,
> > entering the password and hitting enter,
> > the following error message occur:
> >
> > psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "Christo"
>
> Unless you created the user as "Christo" you should use christo -
> postgresql is case insensitive unless you put it in quotes.

badly worded response there.

unless you put quotes around it, postgres turns it lowercase.

so Christo becomes christo ...

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