Re: can't alter user with the postgres user

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Katy Earl <khaetee(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: can't alter user with the postgres user
Date: 2003-05-13 19:32:45
Message-ID: 200305131232.45953.josh@agliodbs.com
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Katy,

> I'm brand new to postgres, and I didn't install it on
> the machine I'm using so I don't entirely understand
> its configuration. But isn't the 'postgres' user
> supposed to be like the root user for PostgreSQL?
> Well, for some reason, my postgres user doesn't have
> the privilege to create other users...

Who installed it? They may not have made "postgres" the superuser. Who owns
the PostgreSQL directories?

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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