On Sat Mar 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM PDT, Tom Lane wrote: > PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> writes: >> In the Getting Started section of the documentation which would be used by a >> new user immediately after installing PostgreSQL, the user is asked to run >> $ createdb mydb >> If the database is correctly installed, this first command to be run by the >> new user inevitably fails with the error: >> createdb: error: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 >> failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "Mark"
> We can't really hope to document everything that every packager does > in the community Postgres documentation, not least because they seldom > inform us. I suppose it might be helpful to add something along the > lines of "if you are using a pre-packaged version of Postgres, please > consult the packager's documentation". Given that the 'Installation' subsection, before the 'Creating a Database' subsection within Getting Started, covers the various way Postgres may be installed, and covers that environment variables may need to be tweaked to accommodated the differences, I don't feel the subsequent sections need to repeat how to deal with different types of installations. Best regards, Gurjeet https://Gurje.et
