Postgres CLI error: database "dev" does not exist on trying to run any psql command

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I install postgres version 14 using homebrew.

brew install postgresql

Whenever, I try to run psql command, I get the following error:

psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: 
FATAL: database "dev" does not exist

Following are my system paths

/Users/dev/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/bin:
/opt/homebrew/bin:
/opt/homebrew/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin:
/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:
/Library/Apple/usr/bin:

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2 Answers

You must be using the 'dev' name in your connection string? Can you show us that? The default db in postgres is called postgres there is no dev database.

When connecting to a fresh install of Postgres entering psql into the command line actually executes something like

psql -d postgres -U postgres -p 5432 -h localhost

Those are the default values so psql is fine.

You/your application is entering something like:

psql -d dev -U [user] -p [port] -h [host]
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As @VynlJunkie said, your issue is connected with absence of dev database. There is one more thing you can do. Maybe you want to enter psql just like this:

> psql

You can do it by creating empty database named dev. So you enter psql the way @VynlJunkie explained and run such query:

CREATE DATABASE dev;

Then you could access psql just using one term in terminal.

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