Clarify Bare Metal Installation Instructions

[jgpruitt]

Kiran k  11:40 PM
in this bare metal installation instructions on ubuntu 20.04, what is the default db-name and db-password? ias per these instructions in step 2, it says i have to provide db-name and db-password as parameters from step 1 and step 1 never mentioned on it.

https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/bare-metal-promscale-stack.md

John Pruitt
Thanks for pointing out that oversight. The typical way to connect to a bare metal install of postgres is to su - postgres and then use psql. The postgres linux user has password-less access. Once you are in the database as the postgres user, I would recommend creating a dedicated user for promscale with a password and creating a dedicated database for promscale owned by that user.
Does that answer your question?