其他的答案都不能让我完全满意。以下是Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS上postgresql-9.1的工作原理。

Connect to the default database with user postgres: sudo -u postgres psql template1 Set the password for user postgres, then exit psql (Ctrl-D): ALTER USER postgres with encrypted password 'xxxxxxx'; Edit the pg_hba.conf file: sudo vim /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf and change "peer" to "md5" on the line concerning postgres: local      all     postgres     peer md5 To know what version of postgresql you are running, look for the version folder under /etc/postgresql. Also, you can use Nano or other editor instead of VIM. Restart the database : sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart (Here you can check if it worked with psql -U postgres). Create a user having the same name as you (to find it, you can type whoami): sudo createuser -U postgres -d -e -E -l -P -r -s <my_name> The options tell postgresql to create a user that can login, create databases, create new roles, is a superuser, and will have an encrypted password. The really important ones are -P -E, so that you're asked to type the password that will be encrypted, and -d so that you can do a createdb. Beware of passwords: it will first ask you twice the new password (for the new user), repeated, and then once the postgres password (the one specified on step 2). Again, edit the pg_hba.conf file (see step 3 above), and change "peer" to "md5" on the line concerning "all" other users: local      all     all     peer md5 Restart (like in step 4), and check that you can login without -U postgres: psql template1 Note that if you do a mere psql, it will fail since it will try to connect you to a default database having the same name as you (i.e. whoami). template1 is the admin database that is here from the start. Now createdb <dbname> should work.

在Linux下，PostgresQL通常配置为允许根用户以postgres超级用户postgres的身份从shell(控制台或ssh)登录。

$ psql -U postgres

然后像往常一样创建一个新数据库:

CREATE ROLE myuser LOGIN password 'secret';
CREATE DATABASE mydatabase ENCODING 'UTF8' OWNER myuser;

这应该在不接触pg_hba.conf的情况下工作。如果你想通过网络使用一些GUI工具来做到这一点，那么你就需要修改pg_hba.conf。

您可能需要更新pg_hba.conf文件。该文件控制哪些用户可以从哪些IP地址登录。我认为postgres用户在默认情况下是被锁定的。

有两种方法可以使用。两者都需要创建用户和数据库。

Using createuser and createdb, $ sudo -u postgres createuser --superuser $USER $ createdb mydatabase $ psql -d mydatabase Using the SQL administration commands, and connecting with a password over TCP $ sudo -u postgres psql postgres And, then in the psql shell CREATE ROLE myuser LOGIN PASSWORD 'mypass'; CREATE DATABASE mydatabase WITH OWNER = myuser; Then you can login, $ psql -h localhost -d mydatabase -U myuser -p <port> If you don't know the port, you can always get it by running the following, as the postgres user, SHOW port; Or, $ grep "port =" /etc/postgresql/*/main/postgresql.conf

旁注:postgres用户

我建议不要修改postgres用户。

It's normally locked from the OS. No one is supposed to "log in" to the operating system as postgres. You're supposed to have root to get to authenticate as postgres. It's normally not password protected and delegates to the host operating system. This is a good thing. This normally means in order to log in as postgres which is the PostgreSQL equivalent of SQL Server's SA, you have to have write-access to the underlying data files. And, that means that you could normally wreck havoc anyway. By keeping this disabled, you remove the risk of a brute force attack through a named super-user. Concealing and obscuring the name of the superuser has advantages.

在MacOS中，我按照以下步骤使其工作。

首次安装时，请在安装完成后获取系统用户名。

$ cd ~
$ pwd
/Users/someuser
$ psql -d postgres -U someuser

现在您已经登录到系统，可以创建DB了。

postgres=# create database mydb;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# create user myuser with encrypted password 'pass123';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# grant all privileges on database mydb to myuser;
GRANT

其他的答案都不能让我完全满意。以下是Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS上postgresql-9.1的工作原理。

Connect to the default database with user postgres: sudo -u postgres psql template1 Set the password for user postgres, then exit psql (Ctrl-D): ALTER USER postgres with encrypted password 'xxxxxxx'; Edit the pg_hba.conf file: sudo vim /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf and change "peer" to "md5" on the line concerning postgres: local      all     postgres     peer md5 To know what version of postgresql you are running, look for the version folder under /etc/postgresql. Also, you can use Nano or other editor instead of VIM. Restart the database : sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart (Here you can check if it worked with psql -U postgres). Create a user having the same name as you (to find it, you can type whoami): sudo createuser -U postgres -d -e -E -l -P -r -s <my_name> The options tell postgresql to create a user that can login, create databases, create new roles, is a superuser, and will have an encrypted password. The really important ones are -P -E, so that you're asked to type the password that will be encrypted, and -d so that you can do a createdb. Beware of passwords: it will first ask you twice the new password (for the new user), repeated, and then once the postgres password (the one specified on step 2). Again, edit the pg_hba.conf file (see step 3 above), and change "peer" to "md5" on the line concerning "all" other users: local      all     all     peer md5 Restart (like in step 4), and check that you can login without -U postgres: psql template1 Note that if you do a mere psql, it will fail since it will try to connect you to a default database having the same name as you (i.e. whoami). template1 is the admin database that is here from the start. Now createdb <dbname> should work.