or just:
su - postgres -c "createdb <db>"
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From: Hiroki Takada [mailto:takada@rh.xdsl.ne.jp]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:29 AM
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Pb with createdb
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the user admin scheme of PostgreSQL should be considered.
you, however, can simply create an user named 'root' like
su postgres -c 'createuser root'
then, try 'createdb' again.
> i'm very new to pgsql. I've use the debian package to install it on my
> woody, and i'm trying to create a database.
>
> but : > createdb
> psql: FATAL 1: user "root" does not exist
> createdb: database creation failed
>
Hiroki
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