Create a "postgres" user account on OSX?

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Mar 15, 202625063 views

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I just made a mistake: I installed PostgreSQL on Mac OSX 10.6.7 and when I wanted to connect to it I did , then it asked me for a password and I did to change the password to something I know. The problem is, as explained here, this created a Unix user account for postgres and afterwards I had two …

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su postgres

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from the following stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15301826/psql-fatal-role-postgres-does-not-exist

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Create a "postgres" user account on OSX?

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