Re: [EXT EMAIL] Re: First Time Starting Up PostgreSQL and Having Problems

Brent Bates <BBates(at)langleyfcu(dot)org> writes:
> I tried putting the pg_hba.conf back to stock defaults and that didn't help any. Here is a snippet of the current file:
> # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD

> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local all all trust

Well, that's certainly a perfectly valid pg_hba.conf entry ... my file
contains a line that looks exactly like that, and the parser is *not*
particularly picky about what the whitespace is.

I'm still suspicious that the server is reading pg_hba.conf but trying
to interpret it as some other kind of config data, so I'd advise again
to double-check what you've put in postgresql.conf.

regards, tom lane