Re: dblink_connect fails

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.

Same result.

Cheers,

James Sewell,
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote:

> On 12/15/2015 06:24 PM, James Sewell wrote:
> > I have a Windows PostgreSQL server where dblink_connect fails to pick up
> > the current user as follows:
>
> > ffm=# SELECT dblink_connect('master', 'dbname=ffm');
> > ERROR: could not establish connection
> > DETAIL: FATAL: role "PRDSWIDEGRID01$" does not exist
>
> > Has anyone seen this before? It seems very odd to me, I have another
> > identical machine (except for being on 9.4.0) which this works on.
>
>
> Do you happen to have a PGUSER variable defined in your environment
> (that is, in the environment as seen by the OS user the postmaster runs
> under)?
>
> See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/libpq-envars.html
>
> Joe
>
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