Configure PostgreSQL to allow local connections
It may be necessary to configure the postgres daemon to allow
connections from the localhost without authentification. This can be set by changing the configuration in the postgres file pg_hba.conf (tipically under /usr/local/pgsql/data or /etc/postgresql/*/main/pg_hba.conf, where * stands for a version number) and having two 'trust' lines like these in place of the 'ident' lines:
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
and then restarting the postgres daemon with pg_ctl restart or service postgres restart or maybe service postgresql-* restart. Usually
this has to be done as user 'postgres', or whatever system user
created the posgres installation. It is not recommended to handle the
postgress as 'root'.