Re: Lost superuser login grant

On 20/10/2016 14:25, Davide Toller wrote:
> Hello to all,
> I made a mistake by revoking the grant login to my superuser "postgres".
>
> Now, when I try to access my database I get the following error:
>
> psql: FATAL: role "postgres" is not permitted to log in
>
> I'm working with Postgres 9.3 on Red Hat 6.
> There is a way to give back the login grant to user "postgres"?
>

I think the only way is to stop postgres, and launch it in single user mode:

postgres --single -D /path/to/pgdata

Then you should be able to grant login privilege to your superuser.

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