error: error: password authentication failed for user "electron_release_server_user"

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So it turned out to be my version of Node.

Node.js 6.0 just didn't seem to work. Once I downgraded to LTS, poof, everything worked as expected.

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Per my experience, the issue belongs to the scope of Client Authentication problems that you can refer to the Postgres document to know it, please see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/client-authentication-problems.html.

The usual solution is that checking or changing the password for the specified user via the Postgres command ALTER USER, please see the document http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-alteruser.html.

There is an exsiting SO thread which you can refer to, please see Postgresql: password authentication failed for user "postgres".

Hope it helps.

CodeHunter