Learn Relational Databases by Building a Mario Database - Build a Mario Database

[gokmeh.27]

Tell us what’s happening:
I am stuck at the second step. It tells me to write “psql --username=freecodecamp --db=postgres” in the terminal. An error occurs when I write it and it says no file or directory found. Maybe the default psql file is deleted. Please help me and tell me what to do to save that file or to pass this level.

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[tkhuu79]

I am not exactly sure what’s going on, but I have errors accessing other relation database lessons, too. I just went to another lesson and waited it out.

[Mathhew]

Have you tried everything that’s described here ?

Running the Relational Database Curriculum in your Browser

The web based version of the Relational Database curriculum is here! Follow the steps below to run the courses in your browser. If you want to run them locally instead, you can learn how here. Note: you cannot earn your certification running these locally. How to get started Follow these steps to get started with the browser version of the courses: First, you will need to create a GitHub account if don’t have one If you don’t want to save your progress, you can skip to step 4 after you have…

[igorgetmeabrain]

@gokmeh.27

psql --username=freecodecamp --db=postgres

The exact command required is:
psql --username=freecodecamp --dbname=postgres.
(Which is slightly different than the command you’ve given us).
Could that be the issue?

There are connection issues sometimes though, so if you’re still having trouble, perhaps give it a while and try again.

[gokmeh.27]

Thanks for the tip but I tried it and again, an error occured. The error:psql: error: connection to server on socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?

[igorgetmeabrain]

Can you show a screenshot of this error occurring please?

[gokmeh.27]

[igorgetmeabrain]

I think you’re experiencing the connection errors which are affecting lots of other people right now. There have been outage problems with CodeAlly in the last few days but they’re intermittent. Hopefully it will be resolved very soon!

[gokmeh.27]

Thank you so much for this source. I installed this course and now I am proceeding in my local VS code thanks to you. You saved my life!