Re: Facing authentication error on postgres 9.2 -> dblink functions

Apologies for posting on multiple lists, surely will take care of this next
time.

Yup adding user=username resolved this. Thanks to 'Laurenz Albe' and you
too.

Regards - Dev

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
> On 02/06/2013 08:09 AM, Dev Kumkar wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am using postgres 9.2 and when executing function dblink facing a fatal
>> error while trying to execute dblink_connect as follows:
>>
>> /SELECT * FROM dblink_connect('host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres
>> password=test')/
>>
>> *ERROR*: could not establish connection DETAIL: FATAL: password
>> authentication failed for user "NETWORK SERVICE"
>>
>>
>> What this error is related to? Do I need to modify pg_hba.conf file by
>> any chance?
>>
>> Thanks..
>>
>>
>
> Do NOT send questions to multiple lists. That is a waste of everybody's
> time. So do NOT follow up this email. This question belongs on
> pgsql-general. If you have further questions pleease ask there.
>
> The short answer is that you need to provide the user name in your connect
> string.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>