alex@icctools.com writes:
> Ive been having a weird problem recently. Ive been using initdb to
> initialize a new postgres, but the as soon as i try and log in, i keep
> on getting and "no PostgreSQL user name specified in startup packet"
> error. Should this not be ok?
That's not an easy error to get --- most of our client-side programs try
hard to provide some user name. What are you doing to "log in", exactly?
Do you perhaps have PGUSER set to an empty string in your environment?
regards, tom lane