On Monday 01 March 2010 @ 17:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> > Killed the stuck postmaster with sigkill, edited the file,
> > restarted postmaster, and it re-wrote the file with the
> > bogus entry. I don't have any superuser sessions open. Is
> > there another route?
>
> What you're going to need to do is stop the postmaster, start
> a standalone backend (see the "postgres" man page entry if you
> never did that before) and issue the ALTER USER in the
> standalone backend. Then you can restart normal operations.
That did the trick. Thank you very much, Sensei.
Ed
