I’m having issues with creating a backup from the admin section, running discourse from the docker container on localhost. The error I’m getting is: pg_dump: error: connection to database "discourse development" failed: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres". I checked the pg_hba.c…

That could be a regression. It should be using user discourse, I’d think.

Where could I change the user being used by discourse?

Following this tutorial: [immagine] Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides Developing using Docker Since Discourse runs in Docker, you should be able to run Discourse directly from your source directory using a Discourse development con…

Hi Max! Were you able to fix this issue? I’m currently having the exact same problem, although I first detected it trying to make a restore on my local docker development install.

Hi @max-elia I’ve also run into this problem, were you able to get it fixed by any chance?

I fixed it by adding username: discourse directly into my database.yml. Thank you!

where in the file did you add it and what else did you do?? Adding it to the development section and simply restarting (d/shutdown_dev; d/boot_dev) didn’t do it for me.

Right under adapter: postgresql in the config/database.yml Then I followed the script/discourse restore <filename.of.the.backup.tar.gz> Which was what I was trying to accomplish.

Backup fallito su localhost con docker

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max-elia (Max Elia) 5 Luglio 2021, 1:15pm 5

Seguendo questo tutorial:

Come ho detto, tutto funziona correttamente, tranne il backup.

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Backup fallito su localhost con docker

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