Is there a way to break into a PostgreSQL database if you forgot the password?

Question

I have a client that has a PostgreSQL database and he cannot remember the password that we used when the database was setup. Is there a way to recover that information so I do n

Answer 1

For 9.2, in windows:

Stop the service:

Net stop postgresql-x64-9

Modify the config file, change data/pg_hba.conf, basically md5 to trust:

host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust

host all all ::1/128 trust

Start the service:

Net start postgresql-x64-9

Execute the sql statement to set your desired password, on a sql console or using psql:

alter user postgres with password ‘newpassword’;

Put back the original config file.