Re: FATAL logged when starting

"Sahagian, David" <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com> writes:
> We get this FATAL pg_log entry, just after Postgres startup.
> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "rsaadmin", database "postgres", SSL off

> Postgres is run under the linux user account "rsaadmin", but we don't have a Postgres role by that name.

> Is there a way for me to specify a DIFFERENT USER, that pg_ctl will use to determine postgres has started ?

I think you could set PGUSER in pg_ctl's environment.

> If not, how do people work around getting this nasty FATAL log message ?

You could just ignore it ... it's harmless.

regards, tom lane