Re: How to change the default database for a user

Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've created a user and a database both wrongly named "phpbb".
> After that I have renamed both to "punbb" using "ALTER DATABASE"
> and "ALTER USER". Now everything works fine, except I always
> have to specify the database when connecting (both using psql or
> the PQconnectdb() from my C-program):
>
>     h754814:afarber {103} psql -U punbb
>     psql: FATAL:  database "phpbb" does not exist

psql uses your Unix username as the default database if you don't
specify one.

-Doug