Re: Several problems with installation on FreeBSD - how to reinstall without loosing data

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Jayadevan M <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jon Theil Nielsen <jontheil(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Several problems with installation on FreeBSD - how to reinstall without loosing data
Date: 2013-09-18 08:55:31
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Jayadevan M <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> You have lines in the output which say

> "Sep 17 17:39:43 <local5.info> mflserver4 postgres[21022]: [39-1] LOG:  connection authorized: user=root database=root"
> In case you are not doing it manually, do you have some cron job
> that is expected to backup the database or vacuum the database,
> and it is trying to connect to the database as root user, to
> database root?

... keeping in mind that many utilities will default user ID and
database name to the OS user if not specified on the command line.

Also, pg_ctl will attempt to connect to the database on a start or
restart to confirm that it is running.

--
Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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