rake db:create fails, authentication problem with postgresql 8.4

Question

first things first, please excuse my utter noobness. I really tried to find a solution out there, but now i\'m stuck and completely clueless.

i\'m trying to deploy a rai

Answer 1

okay, found out how incredibly stupid i've been... the password for my user was simply not set ! I think i forgot the semicolon after

ALTER USER xxxx WITH PASSWORD xxxx ;

... i saw this by requesting "SELECT * FROM pg_shadow;" - the password field was empty. Three days of my life wasted because of this dumb mistake...