Re: Move cluster to new host, upgraded version

On 11/13/18 4:24 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> You have two options:
>>
>> 1) The preferred one. Keep the password and create a .pgpass file to
>> hold the password:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/libpq-pgpass.html
>
> Adrian,
>
>   That's database-specific if I read the manual page correctly.

No:

" Each of the first four fields can be a literal value, or *, which
matches anything. "

>
>> My guess is you had one on the other machine.
>
>   Nope. I've been running postgres since 1997 and never used a password
> since I'm the only one using the databases.
>
>> 2) Change your auth method in pg_hba.conf:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/client-authentication.html
>
>   /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/pg_hba.conf has trust as the local authentication

If the record starts with local then that is for socket connections.

If you are connecting to a host e.g -h localhost then you need to look
at the host records.

> method for all databases. Perhaps I need to restart the server after
> loading
> the databases. Will try that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>

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