On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> You have two options:
>
> 1) The preferred one. Keep the password and create a .pgpass file to hold the
> password:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/libpq-pgpass.html
Adrian,
That's database-specific if I read the manual page correctly.
> My guess is you had one on the other machine.
Nope. I've been running postgres since 1997 and never used a password
since I'm the only one using the databases.
> 2) Change your auth method in pg_hba.conf:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/client-authentication.html
/var/lib/pgsql/11/data/pg_hba.conf has trust as the local authentication
method for all databases. Perhaps I need to restart the server after loading
the databases. Will try that.
Thanks,
Rich
