Fwd: dblink_connect fails

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From: *James Sewell* <james(dot)sewell(at)lisasoft(dot)com>
Date: Thursday, 17 December 2015
Subject: dblink_connect fails
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mail(at)joeconway(dot)com');>> wrote:

> On 12/16/2015 04:53 PM, James Sewell wrote:
> > No it is not.
> >
> > Just in case I tried setting it to 'postgres', logged in without -U
> > (doesn't work without PGUSER set) and tried the operation again.
>
> > > DETAIL: FATAL: role "PRDSWIDEGRID01$" does not exist
>
> That "PRDSWIDEGRID01$" is coming from somewhere in your environment.
> Looks like it is supposed to be a variable of some sort which is
> supposed to resolve to an actual postgres user but for some reason doesn't.
>
> What about FDWs?
>

This is a new database with some tables and dblink loaded.

The PRDSWIDEGRID01 is actually the hostname - but I just can't see how
it's getting injected.

My understanding was that psql -U should override? And also that any user
variable just sets the user PostgreSQL variable - which is postgres.

Strange stuff. I've just tried from cygwin, from Windows psql and from
PGAdmin - all the same result.

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