Richard,
Are you sure that you weren't typing an additional argument, such as:
sudo -u postgres psql db_name
Reason I ask is because, by default running the command psql assumes
some things if you don't call them out explicitly such as:
psql assumes:
-h 127.0.0.1
-p 5432 (or whichever was compiled in)
user_name (database name, named that of the user)
user_name (user name, named that of the user)
so when you type:
sudo -u postgres psql, I think it's interpreted as:
sudo -u postgres -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 postgres postgres
sudo -u postgres psql -d template1 (implies a user of postgres) and that's why it works.
Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
Hello everybody
We have a very strange problem here: we have been using postgresql for
several years now, it runs fine without any problem.
BUT today, we saw something I do not understand:
when I try to use psql like this:
sudo -u postgres psql
I get the message psql: FATAL: database "postgres" does not exist
About 1-2 months ago, this was OK
I know this message is current on a new installation when the system is
NOT initialized.
But what puzzles me here is that the database postgres DID exist... but
it seems to have suddenly disappeared !!!!
A part from this, everything works fine, for example the command:
sudo -u postgres psql -d template1
works, and the postgres applications run quite smoothly
So, here is my question: how such a thing could have happen ? We cannot
remeber any stupid thing we could have done (but may be we did... And
what do I have to do to recreate the postgres database... in fact, is it
even necessary doing so ?
If you issue "\l" from within the posgresql command prompt does it list postgres as a database?
If it does not show up, my guess is that is was dropped.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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