> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Phillip Criley
> Sent: 25 August 2006 16:19
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] Create database/password problem
>
> Currently, I'm running FC5, KDE3.5, Postgresql v8.1.4 and
> trying to use
> pgadmin. I'm a refugee from windoze, Paradox, Delphi,
> Interbase/Firebird (about 16 years) and Oracle but my cat
> about wore her
> eyeballs out watching me try to get Postgresql/pgadmin to create the
> first database. It will not take the password. It appears to me that
> pgadmin is supposed to create the password file when one clicks the
> create (database) button. Since I can't find the .pgpass, postgresql
> probably isn't going to find it either. Could you explain to
> me how that
> file gets created on a _new_ installation? I think that's the
> problem.
> At any rate I have to get this running and I sure would rather use
> pgadmin than the command line.
pgAdmin only creates a pgpass file if you check the Save Password option
when connecting to the *server* (it's got nothing to do with databases).
Without it, you'll just get prompted for the password whenever you
connect. The server/ itself doesn't ever look at the pgpass file - only
the clients do.
What is the exact error message you get, and what precise steps to you
take to see it?
Regards, Dave (just about to leave work for the weekend, but might be
online later...).