Re: PostgreSQL - How to login with my Linux user account

On 7/27/23 17:19, Amn Ojee Uw wrote:
> I'd like to log into my newly installed PostgreSQL [ PostgreSQL 12.15
> (Debian 12.15-1.pgdg120+1) ] using my linux account.
> In trying to do that this web page
> <https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/postgresql/log-in-postgresql-database/>suggest that I enter :
>
> psql -d mydb -U myuser -W
>
> However, that command requires a database_name (mydb), and PosgreSQL 12.15 being so freshly installed does not yet
> have any database created by me.
>
> How would you suggest I circumvent this challenge?

The tutorial

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial.html

would be a good place to start.

From said tutorial:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-createdb.html

createdb mydb

Which in turn leads to:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-createdb.html

>
> Mind you that, using the postgres account I have created other accounts.
>
>
> Role name | Attributes | Member of
> -----------+------------------------------------------------------------+-----------
> chispa | Superuser | {}
> pedro | Superuser | {}
> postgres | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {}
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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