Re: Facing authentication error on postgres 9.2 -> dblink functions

Dev Kumkar wrote:
> I am using postgres 9.2 and when executing function dblink facing a fatal error while trying to
> execute dblink_connect as follows:
>
>     SELECT * FROM dblink_connect('host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres password=test')
>
>     ERROR: could not establish connection DETAIL: FATAL: password authentication failed for user
> "NETWORK SERVICE"
>
> What this error is related to? Do I need to modify pg_hba.conf file by any chance?

You should specify a user=username option in the connection string,
otherwise that defaults to your operating system user name.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe