PostgreSQL FATAL: Peer Authentication Failed for User Postgres

Recently, I upgraded a server running Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, that also comes with PostgreSQL 16. For some odd reasons, the Postgres server was not managed by Ansible, and changes previously made to Postgres 15 was not recorded. I noticed that the backup database (pg_dump) was not working properly, the backup database size was just a few kilobytes. Let’s investigate, shall we? root@toto:/etc/cron.daily# ./postgresql-backup pg_dump: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/....

June 21, 2024 · 4 min · 666 words · kenno