FW: Createdb Problems

I originally posted this in the novice section. I'm not really sure
where it belongs. Thanks for your help.

Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Cofield [mailto:lcofield(at)box-works(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:15 PM
To: 'pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Createdb Problems

Hi all,

The initdb seemed to go fine, the postmaster is running in the
background, but createdb testdb results in this:

FATAL: user "postgres" does not exist
psql: FATAL: user "postgres" does not exist
createdb: database creation failed

whoami shows that I am clearly "postgres"

Does anybody have an idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Louise