Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:00:35AM +0530, Kranti K K Parisa? wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve/update the postgres root password ?
> edit pg_hba.conf so that localhost connections from localhost are
> trusted maybe like this:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
> you have to restart, but then you can do an alter user and so can all
> the other local users.
"ident" mode might be a safer option.
regards, tom lane