| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "noloader(at)gmail(dot)com" <noloader(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Determine if a user and database are available |
| Date: | 2022-09-02 22:00:04 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYLrrnXqQNvVow58HKwjmoapLyNfzo+099zwAYQHQ28mQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Friday, September 2, 2022, Jeffrey Walton <noloader(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Given the NOTES in the man page, how do we determine if a user and
> database are present using the shell? Is there another utility we
> should be using?
>
Literally every other shell program that requires logging into the database
will fail if invalid credentials are provided.
Or, you can use good credentials and psql to connect to a known database
and then query the system to learn, without an error, if other roles or
databases exist in the same cluster.
David J.
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