1) For item 2, you don't need superuser to own a database. 2) For item 3, you just open the whole world to access your hawq cluster (all users from all ip to access all dbs) with superuser role. According to the error, you were trying to login "etl_users" from local socket to access "etl_users" db in hawq master, but hawq master didn't find any match entry in pg_hba. You can either specify $PGHOST to master IP (this way, psql will try to access hawq from tcp), or create local entry with md5/password auth method. For example, "local etl_user etl_user md5". 3) For item 4, you don't need to restart hawq cluster. "hawq stop --reload" should work in this case. ... View more