rake db:create fails, authentication problem with postgresql 8.4

Question

first things first, please excuse my utter noobness. I really tried to find a solution out there, but now i\'m stuck and completely clueless.

i\'m trying to deploy a rai

Answer 1

In my case, I found that a later host permissions rule line in the pg_hba.conf file had over-ridden the earlier local line. I was correctly configuring the local line to use md5 authentication but the host line was set to ident which I changed to md5

As other have emphasized here, note that using trust is an insecure method, so you shouldn't use it in any production-style deployment.