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

The documentation for createuser indicates that a -U switch is accepted:

-U username
--username username

User name to connect as (not the user name to create).

This is what I would expect to use (although I've never tried to set up PostgreSQL on Windows, only on unices).