It's a SuSE Linux 8.2-box with the original 2.4.20-kernel.
I get the same error when setting PGHOST to localhost, the real hostname or
the IP-adress of the box. It has nothing to do with the resolver I think.
Tommi Mäkitalo
Am Montag, 1. September 2003 22:49 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Tommi =?iso-8859-15?q?M=E4kitalo?= <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de> writes:
> > psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "::ffff:127.0.0.1", user
> > "postgres", database "template1"
>
> What platform is this?
>
> It sounds to me like your system is resolving "localhost" as an IPv6
> address ...
>
> regards, tom lane