How to add a user to PostgreSQL in Windows?

Question

I\'m running PostgreSQL on mt Windows 7 machine. To run a database I type:

C:\\psql -Upostgres mydb

and this works, but it would be nice i

Answer 1

Just to add more information. From official documentation: you can specify the user under which createuser utility logs in to postgres via environment variable:

PGUSER

One liner for powershell:

& { $env:PGUSER="postgres"; .\createuser.exe Eric}