[Live-demo] pgrouting converter fail

[Brian Hamlin]

On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Hamish wrote:

>
> - pgRouting:
>    "Run osm2pgrouting converter (this may take a while)
>     host=127.0.0.1 user=user dbname=pgrouting port=5432
>     connection failed"
>   ?
>
it seems that it is not enough to specify user=user,
that invoking the whole thing as root fails,
hence the su to 'user' in most (every) other script

for some consolation, almost every script that connects to Pg has failed
at least once by some connection string trip-up at some point...