"Christo Romberg" <coromberg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > When I try to connect to my database "dspace", > the following error message occur: > FATAL: database "dspace" does not exist The error message seems perfectly clear to me ;-). You might be getting bit by case sensitivity --- perhaps the database is really named "DSpace" or some such? If you're not sure, try "psql -l" to list the existing databases. regards, tom lane