Rails and PostgreSQL: Role postgres does not exist
- by Adam
I have installed postgresql on my Mac OS Lion, and am working on a rails app. I use RVM to keep everything separate from my other rails apps.
For some reason when I try to migrate the db for the first time rake cannot find the postgres user. I get the error
FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist
I have pgAdmin 3 so I can clearly see there is a postgres user in the DB - the admin account in fact - so I'm not sure what else to do.
I read somewhere about people having issues with postgresql because of which path it was installed in, but then i don't think i would have gotten that far if it couldn't find the db.
Any clues would be gratefully received!
Thanks,
Adam