Re: Re: How to use createdb command with newly created user?

Better to run now, and save yourself hassle in the future:
ALTER ROLE "Baba" RENAME TO baba;

Also, use a .pgpass file:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pgpass.html

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM 毛毛 <krave(at)163(dot)com> wrote:

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> Thank you! You are right!
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> After putting quotes around the username, it works!
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> 在 2024-06-24 02:47:44，"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> 写道：
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> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 11:43 毛毛 <krave(at)163(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I tried to create a user with CREATEDB permission.
>> Then I wanted to run command line tool `createdb` with this newly created
>> user.
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>> So I ran SQL first to create a user:
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>> ```
>> CREATE USER Baba WITH PASSWORD 'xxx' CREATEDB;
>> ```
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>> Then I run the following command on PowerShell on Windows 10:
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>> ```
>> createdb -U Baba -W test_db
>> ```
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>> But no mater how I tried, the password always failed.
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>> If I specify the user as postgres, the defaut user, everything works fine.
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>> ```
>> createdb -U postgres -W test_db_1
>> ```
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>> Do you have any suggestions?
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> You named the user "baba" all lower-case but your createdb command uses
> Baba and in the OS the case-folding of identifiers does not happen. Baba
> != baba is your issue.
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> David J.
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