Gaurav Singh <singh09721@itc.nl> wrote:
> The Postgres server is up and running but when I call psql it
> gives fatal error saying "password authentication failed for user
> singh09721".
You are probably not specifying a database user ID for psql to use,
so it is defaulting to your OS login ID. Do you get in if you try?:
psql postgres postgres
You might want to browse through the documentation:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/index.html
-Kevin