Re: role does not exist

On 10/31/2012 03:54 PM, Kevin Burton wrote:
> I have successfully installed PostgreSQL on a Ubuntu Linux machine.
> However right off the bat I type ‘psql’ and I get the error: ‘role
> “xxxx” does not exist’. Where xxx is the user name logged in. How do I
> overcome this hurdle. Right now all of our data is on a Windows SQL
> Server. Can someone give me step by step directions on how to import the
> databases from SQL Server. Actually I only want a few tables in the
> database. Hints?

Well step by step is a bit exhaustive for a mailing list. To solve the
specific question the default user is postgres and the default super
user within postgresql is postgres. Try this:

sudo -u postgres psql

JD

>
> Thank you.
>


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