On 12/15/2015 06:24 PM, James Sewell wrote:
> I have a Windows PostgreSQL server where dblink_connect fails to pick up
> the current user as follows:
> ffm=# SELECT dblink_connect('master', 'dbname=ffm');
> ERROR: could not establish connection
> DETAIL: FATAL: role "PRDSWIDEGRID01$" does not exist
> Has anyone seen this before? It seems very odd to me, I have another
> identical machine (except for being on 9.4.0) which this works on.
Do you happen to have a PGUSER variable defined in your environment
(that is, in the environment as seen by the OS user the postmaster runs
under)?
See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/libpq-envars.html
Joe
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