Not needed if you are logged in as user postgres in your OS when you enter psql. At least, with the hba_conf file the way it is stock.
But a good point, though. I wonder if I would then have to know the DATABASE password for postgres if I wasn't user postgres in the OS?
Dennis Gearon
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From: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> To: Dennis Gearon <gearond@sbcglobal.net> Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, September 27, 2012 8:13:17 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] problem with recreating database with export
On 27 September 2012 16:55, Dennis Gearon <gearond@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > <note to future> > To anyone reading this in the future, if you have problems importing a plain > text database export, it is usually impossible to do: > psql -d some_dbase -f the_backup.sql. I don't know why.
Looks like you forgot -U postgres
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