Re: Upgrading using pg_dumpall

Hi

On 09/04/2016 05:16 PM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 09/04/2016 05:14 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>
>>> Or if you are fine running the 9.5 instance at port 5432, what happens
>>> if you do?:
>>>
>>> psql -d postgres -U some_user -p 5432
>>
>> $ psql -d postgres -U rshepard -p 5432
>> Password for user rshepard: FATAL: password authentication failed for
>> user "rshepard"
>> DETAIL: User "rshepard" has no password assigned.
>> Connection matched pg_hba.conf line 80: "local all all
>> md5"
>> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "rshepard"
>>
>> but,
>>
>> $ psql -d postgres -U postgres -p 5432
>> Password for user postgres: psql (9.5.4)
>> Type "help" for help.
>>
>> postgres=#
>>
>> So, it appears to be a password issue. Please advise me how to get the
>> running postmaster process to accept my accessing databases without a
>> password being required.
>
> Adrian already answered that. You can set the connection authentication
> method to trust. This can have some risks, however.

You may also consider using a .pgpass file:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/libpq-pgpass.html

Bye
Charles

>
> Bye
> Charles
>
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>

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