You have a conceptual error. When connecting you are connecting "to a
database". With out the database you are not connecting to anything
hence the failure.
Typically to do what you are trying to do you would connect to the
database template1 unless a database is specified. If you have
another DB you can connect to that and do your create commands there
are well.
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:35:50 -0400, Ken Tozier <kentozier@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to create a php form for logging in to postgress with
> different level passwords and my first test with a superuser isn't
> working unless I specify a database name. I would like to allow
> superusers to log in without specifying a database so they can create
> new users, databases etc from a web interface. Does anyone see what I'm
> doing wrong in the following example?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Ken
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> I defined a super user like so
>
> CREATE USER user_name CREATEUSER PASSWORD 'password'
>
> Try to log in through a web form like so:
>
> User: user_name
> Password: password
>
> but the connection always fails unless I specify a database.
>
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