Re: Cannot createdb

On Sunday 07 September 2003 05:59 am, Dr. Azmir wrote:
> Hi there I'm Dr. Azmir from Kuala Lumpur.
>   I'm using RH 9.0 with postgresql intalled in it.
> My problem is I can't createuser and createdb with it.
> The error message      "psql: FATAL:  user "name" does not exist
>                          createdb: database creation failed"
>
> will pop up.
>
> Why?
>
> Kindly help me
>
> Thanks

Have you:

1. Executed "initdb" as user postgres successfully?  (If you can't login as
postgres, login as root and su to postgres.)
2. Started the postmaster service?
3. As postgres, create a database user with createdb permissions?

Let us know,

Andrew L. Gould