FW: Createdb Problems

I originally posted this in the novice section.  I'm not really sure
where it belongs.  Thanks for your help.

Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Cofield [mailto:lcofield@box-works.com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:15 PM
To: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org'
Subject: Createdb Problems


Hi all,

The initdb seemed to go fine, the postmaster is running in the
background, but createdb testdb results in this:

FATAL:  user "postgres" does not exist
psql: FATAL:  user "postgres" does not exist
createdb:  database creation failed

whoami shows that I am clearly "postgres"

Does anybody have an idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Louise