I'm trying to use DBD::Pg module to connect to a PostgreSQL database, but it keeps giving me an Ident error.

DBI connect('database=Repairs;host=localhost;port=5432','',...) failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "vendion" at TickItAdmin.pl line 73
This is what I am passing to the module as my connect statement. 
my $dsn = "DBI:Pg:database=Repairs;host=localhost;port=5432";
 my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, '', '', { AutoCommit => 0,  RaiseError 
+=> 1 } )
    || croak "Couldn't authenticate to the Database: $OS_ERROR";

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From my understanding from the documentation of the module passing '' as the username and password it will use the active user's username. I do have a ROLE setup for the username I am using and I know it works, 
vendion@linux-9rf6:~> psql Repairs
psql (8.4.5)
Type "help" for help.

Repairs=>

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Has anyone here run into this before or have an idea of where to look?

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