Translations:Database servers/62/en

PostgreSQL uses IDENT authentication for connection from Cedar nodes which means you do not need to supply a password to access your PostgreSQL account. For security reasons your Alliance password must NEVER be required or used in a script. This also means that one user cannot access another user's database directly.

Run the "psql" client to connect to the PostgreSQL server. An older version of the client may be available without loading a module, but it will not give you access to the latest features of PostgreSQL version 10. We recommend loading the following module to use a more recent version of the client: