Well it defaults to mapping to the current user, so you would have wanted: psql -U myuser mydb Or just create a postgres user named dagon and create the db as owned by that user. Or su myuser before running psql... -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly