Mystery DATABASE_USER=ubuntu Setting

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Sounds rather similar to this issue that popped up recently - upstream changes in the official PostgreSQL image:

Postgres image breaking changes (role postgres not found)

Yesterday all our builds suddenly started failing on a project which has postgres:10-alpine-ram set up. I see new tags were built and published yesterday (https://hub.docker.com/r/circleci/postgres/tags/) aligning with when builds started failing. I don’t see any changes to the postgres Dockerfile, so I’m assuming the breaking change is coming from upstream (https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-dockerfiles/commit/54985a27f8eb93725645801983414be1beea792d). The failure I’m seeing is: 20…

CircleCI Postgres Image suddenly causing problems? "role postgres not found"

Update: To conform with upstream, we’ve removed our default root role/user so that the postgres role/user is automatically created. See this. The TL;DR is if you were using root as your user, either create it via config or use postgres as the user. Hey everyone, Here’s what’s going on and what caused it. The Problem Most of the CircleCI Docker Convenience Images are small CI tweaks we apply to the upstream Docker Library images. So the circleci/postgres image is based on the postgres image. …