I'd have thought that if a matching user couldn't be found in the
specified database then it would default to searching through the
global users? Would be more intuitive...
Lee.
Bruce Momjian writes:
> Sample run:
> $ psql -U postgres test
> psql: FATAL: user "postgres(at)test" does not exist
>
> $ psql -U postgres@ test
> Welcome to psql 7.3devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.