Re: Forgot Root Password

Also, if you wish to avoid a full restart of the database, this change
would be picked up by a "pg_ctl reload" as well.

Cheers,
-craig

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Craig A. McElroy
Contegix LLC
Beyond Managed Hosting(r) for Your Enterprise

On Apr 26, 2008, at 7:34 AM, Ray Stell wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:00:35AM +0530, Kranti K K Parisa? wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve/update the postgres root
>> password ?
>
>
> edit pg_hba.conf so that localhost connections from localhost are
> trusted maybe like
> this:
>
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
>
> you have to restart, but then you can do an alter user and so can
> all the other local
> users.
>
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