psql - password authentication failed for user "singh09721"

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Hello Community,

I recently installed Postgres Plus 8.4.4 on Windows 7 32-bit machine.
The Postgres server is up and running but when I call psql it gives fatal=
=20error saying "password authentication failed for user singh09721".

I am new to this database. Can someone please help me.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Gaurav

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
University of Twente

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Re: psql - password authentication failed for user

Gaurav Singh wrote:

> The Postgres server is up and running but when I call psql it
> gives fatal error saying "password authentication failed for user
> singh09721".

You are probably not specifying a database user ID for psql to use,
so it is defaulting to your OS login ID. Do you get in if you try?:

psql postgres postgres

You might want to browse through the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/index.html

-Kevin

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