"Juliet May" <jmay(at)speark(dot)com> writes:
> The postmaster log says ' "arse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at =
> line 1, token "trust'
This looks like you've got DOS-style newlines (CR/LF) rather than
Unix-style (LF only) in the pg_hba.conf file. The pg_hba code is
picky about that. (Probably it shouldn't be, but that won't help you
today.)
> I edited the pg_hba.conf file in notepad and I think that could be causing =
> the error. Is there another option for editing the file that I should use?
Dunno if Notepad has heard that there are other conventions for line
endings besides Microsoft's. Can anyone recommend a better choice of
editor?
regards, tom lane