Thread: PostgresSQL Setup error

PostgresSQL Setup error

From
Jordan Adams
Date:
Hi Team,

Hope this email finds you well,

Apologies as I am unaware if this is the correct mailing address.

I would however like to inquire about an issue currently being experienced with Postgres with one of our external clients.

When doing the setup and following the steps accordingly with regards to adding the details for PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver and testing, I run into an error where it states the below.

*note - I was provided with the username and password .

"psql: FATAL: password authentication failed"

Please advise if assistance can be provided?


Kind Regards

Jordan Adams

 

IT Support

iSquared Technologies (Pty) Ltd

021 671 5778

http://www.isquared.co.za 

206 Main Road, Claremont, Cape Town 7708

 



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Re: PostgresSQL Setup error

From
Laurenz Albe
Date:
On Wed, 2025-07-09 at 14:06 +0000, Jordan Adams wrote:
> "psql: FATAL: password authentication failed"
>
> Please advise if assistance can be provided?

Possibly.  That error will cause an error message in the PostgreSQL
server log.  Ask your DBA to find that error message and tell you
what it says.

Usually, the message means that you provided the wrong password.

To figure out what is going on, one would have to know how exactly
you are trying to connect (the connect string, the data source
definition) and what is in the database server's "pg_hba.conf".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



Re: PostgresSQL Setup error

From
Adrian Klaver
Date:
On 7/9/25 07:06, Jordan Adams wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> Hope this email finds you well,
> 
> Apologies as I am unaware if this is the correct mailing address.
> 
> I would however like to inquire about an issue currently being 
> experienced with Postgres with one of our external clients.
> 
> When doing the setup and following the steps accordingly with regards to 
> adding the details for PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver and testing, I run 
> into an error where it states the below.
> 
> *note - I was provided with the username and password .
> 
> "psql: FATAL: password authentication failed"

Was that the complete message?

Not something like:

psql: error: connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5482 
failed: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "aklaver"


Also provide:

1) Postgres version.

2) Client version.

> 
> Please advise if assistance can be provided?
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Jordan Adams
> 
> IT Support
> 
> iSquared Technologies (Pty) Ltd
> 
> 021 671 5778
> 
> http://www.isquared.co.za <http://www.isquared.co.za/>
> 
> 206 Main Road, Claremont, Cape Town 7708
> 
> 
> 
> Please send all support emails to SUPPORT@ISQUARED.CO.ZA 
> <mailto:SUPPORT@ISQUARED.CO.ZA> and not to an engineer directly as they 
> cannot respond to these emails. Please send all procurement requests to 
> procurement@isquared.co.za <mailto:procurement@isquared.co.za> Thanks.
> 

-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com




Re: PostgresSQL Setup error

From
"DINESH NAIR"
Date:


Hi, 

There could be many reasons , sharing most common ones: 


Sharing the psql command for ready reference

psql -h <your_server_ip_or_hostname> -p <your_port> -U <your_username> -d <your_database_name>


On 7/9/25 07:06, Jordan Adams wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> Hope this email finds you well,
>
> Apologies as I am unaware if this is the correct mailing address.
>
> I would however like to inquire about an issue currently being
> experienced with Postgres with one of our external clients.
>
> When doing the setup and following the steps accordingly with regards to
> adding the details for PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver and testing, I run
> into an error where it states the below.
>
> *note - I was provided with the username and password .
>
> "psql: FATAL: password authentication failed"

Was that the complete message?

Not something like:

psql: error: connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 5482
failed: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "aklaver"


Also provide:

1) Postgres version.

2) Client version.

>
> Please advise if assistance can be provided?
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Jordan Adams
>
> IT Support
>
> iSquared Technologies (Pty) Ltd
>
> 021 671 5778




Thanks 

Dinesh Nair



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Hi Team,

Hope this email finds you well,

Apologies as I am unaware if this is the correct mailing address.

I would however like to inquire about an issue currently being experienced with Postgres with one of our external clients.

When doing the setup and following the steps accordingly with regards to adding the details for PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver and testing, I run into an error where it states the below.

*note - I was provided with the username and password .

"psql: FATAL: password authentication failed"

Please advise if assistance can be provided?


Kind Regards

Jordan Adams

 

IT Support

iSquared Technologies (Pty) Ltd

021 671 5778

http://www.isquared.co.za 

206 Main Road, Claremont, Cape Town 7708

 



Please send all support emails to SUPPORT@ISQUARED.CO.ZA and not to an engineer directly as they cannot respond to these emails. Please send all procurement requests to procurement@isquared.co.za Thanks.