On Sunday 07 September 2003 05:59 am, Dr. Azmir wrote:
> Hi there I'm Dr. Azmir from Kuala Lumpur.
> I'm using RH 9.0 with postgresql intalled in it.
> My problem is I can't createuser and createdb with it.
> The error message "psql: FATAL: user "name" does not exist
> createdb: database creation failed"
>
> will pop up.
>
> Why?
>
> Kindly help me
>
> Thanks
Have you:
1. Executed "initdb" as user postgres successfully? (If you can't login as
postgres, login as root and su to postgres.)
2. Started the postmaster service?
3. As postgres, create a database user with createdb permissions?
Let us know,
Andrew L. Gould
