To add a user you need to use a postgres user with the ability to add users (a superuser). In most cases this will be the postgres user, which is the initial superuser. The simplest way to connect as the postgres user is to change to the postgres unix user on the database server and take advantage of postgres’ ident based authentication, which trusts your unix account.
Before you can use PostgreSQLyou need to install it, of course. It is possible that PostgreSQL is already installed at your site,either because it was included in your operating systemdistribution or because the system administrator already installedit. If that is the case, you should obtain information from theoperating system documentation or your system administrator abouthow to access PostgreSQL.
If you are not sure whether PostgreSQL is already available or whether youcan use it for your experimentation then you can install ityourself. Doing so is not hard and it can be a good exercise.PostgreSQL can be installed by anyunprivileged user; no superuser (root) access is required.
If you are installing PostgreSQL yourself, then refer to Chapter 15 for instructions oninstallation, and return to this guide when the installation iscomplete. Be sure to follow closely the section about setting upthe appropriate environment variables.
If your site administrator has not set things up in the defaultway, you might have some more work to do. For example, if thedatabase server machine is a remote machine, you will need to setthe PGHOST environment variable to the nameof the database server machine. The environment variable PGPORT might also have to be set. The bottom line isthis: if you try to start an application program and it complainsthat it cannot connect to the database, you should consult yoursite administrator or, if that is you, the documentation to makesure that your environment is properly set up. If you did notunderstand the preceding paragraph then read the next section.
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To Uninstall PostgreSQL completely from Linux, You need to remove entries that are stored in following files Remove 9.4.1 entries from vi /etc/postgres-reg.ini file. I recently installed postgresql. (I know very little about it, but may try it out at some point.) I noticed that a user named postgres (which I do not recall creating manually) is now listed both on the login screen and in the session menu. Neither the users not the groups commands list postgres or anything like that. Can I remove that user and give the necessary permission to my primary user.