Re: PostgreSQL - How to login with my Linux user account

On 7/27/23 17:19, Amn Ojee Uw wrote:
> I'd like to log into my newly installed PostgreSQL [ PostgreSQL 12.15 
> (Debian 12.15-1.pgdg120+1) ] using my linux account.
> In trying to do that this web page 
> <https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/postgresql/log-in-postgresql-database/>suggest that I enter :
> 
> psql -d mydb -U myuser -W
> 
> However, that command requires a database_name (mydb), and PosgreSQL 12.15 being so freshly installed does not yet
> have any database created by me.
> 
> How would you suggest I circumvent this challenge?

The tutorial

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial.html

would be a good place to start.

 From said tutorial:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-createdb.html

createdb mydb


Which in turn leads to:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-createdb.html

> 
> Mind you that, using the postgres account I have created other accounts.
> 
> 
> Role name |                         Attributes                         | Member of
> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------+-----------
>   chispa    | Superuser                                                  | {}
>   pedro     | Superuser                                                  | {}
>   postgres  | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {}
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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