Re: psql on Mac

Thank you, this works!

Can I make it work also for any user?

Cheers,

Ozan

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 22:46, Jeff Frost <jeff.frost@gmail.com> wrote:

psql -U postgres

is probably what you want.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:58 AM Ozan Kahramanogullari <ozan.kah@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am behind a Mac, and I have been trying to get a local server running by following an internet tutorial (which also uses Mac, this one<https://video.cs50.net/web/2018/spring/lectures/>). 

I simply try to run psql on the terminal, and I get various error messages, depending on how I mess up the file "pg_hba.conf", for example by adding the following lines to it, among others: 

local   postgres        postgres                                trust

local   all             postgres                                trust

I have spent the whole morning browsing the internet to find a solution to my problem, and I also tried backtracking from version 11 of PostgreSQL to version 10. I am pasting below some of the error messages that I get. The version 10 warns for no support for Mac; is that the problem?

Perhaps, it is me who hasn't been able to dig out the right information from the internet. However, I must say that I am quite surprised that things get so tedious immediately. I will thus be glad if you could help me with getting this running, perhaps by providing some up-to-date  documentation. 

Thanks,

Ozan

XX:src3 ozan$ psql

Password: 

sql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "ozan"

XX:src3 ozan$ psql

Password: 

psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "ozan"

XX:src3 ozan$ sudo -u postgres psql

Password:

Sorry, try again.

Password:

sudo: 1 incorrect password attempt

XX:src3 ozan$ sudo -u postgres psql

Password:

Sorry, try again.

Password:

could not identify current directory: Permission denied

Password: 

could not identify current directory: Permission denied

psql: could not find own program executable

XX:src3 ozan$ sudo -u postgres psql

could not identify current directory: Permission denied

Password: 

could not identify current directory: Permission denied

psql: could not find own program executable

XX:src3 ozan$ psql

Password: 

 

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http://sites.google.com/site/ozankahramanogullari/
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