There is a bug with the version of the web2py you are using update to a
newer version. There has been a few posts in this group about that.

The other solution is to install psycopg2 and use that driver.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Cliff Kachinske <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you created a postgres user?
> Does the user own the database?
> Does the user have a password?
>
> If not, make these things happen.  A Google search will take you to the
> Postgres manual pages.
>
> If there is a user named "testuser" with a password "testword" then your
> connection string should look like this:
>
> db = DAL('postgres://testuser:testword@localhost:5432/testbank')
>
> Note the 5432.  That's the default postgres connection port.
>
> Undo your changes to the dal code.
>
> On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:25:25 AM UTC-4, lucas wrote:
>>
>> and i did "CREATE DATABASE testbank;" under psql and it does exist as an
>> empty database at this point.
>>
>


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