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Re: Ugh...createlang won't prompt for password


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "Steve - DND" <postgres(at)digitalnothing(dot)com>
  • Cc: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "postgres-win32" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Ugh...createlang won't prompt for password
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:00:28 -0400
  • Message-id: <13446(dot)1113951628(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

"Steve - DND" <postgres(at)digitalnothing(dot)com> writes:
>> Do you get something in the server log at this time? Check both the
>> eventlog and the logfiles in pg_log.

> Nothing in the event log, but the pg_log contained: "2005-04-19 08:48:47
> FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres"". Which I guess
> is to be expected since createlang doesn't ask me to enter my password.

Is it possible that createlang is getting a (wrong) password from
someplace?  Say, a PGPASSWORD environment setting, or a .pgpass
config file.

			regards, tom lane



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