On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:28 +0300, Jarkko Elfving wrote: > I've created a database cluster with initdb and it was succesfully > created. After that I tried to create a database with createdb -command, > but it replys like this: > > jarelf]$ createdb -D /home/jarelf/dbCluster/mydb -O jarelf > > createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: user "jarelf" > does not exist > > What am I doing wrong? Error message is clear: user "jarelf" does not exist detail: [marius@marte tables]$ createdb --help createdb creates a PostgreSQL database. Usage: createdb [OPTION]... [DBNAME] [DESCRIPTION] Options: -O, --owner=OWNER database user to own the new database solution: as root: su - postgres createuser jarelf -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro
