I want to accomplish what I would think would be a simple thing. I
want the root user to be able to connect to the postgres database as
user postgres from the local machine without passwords. Since I am
doing this from a program I don't want to use the su facility.
I have tried a lot of different combinations of things into the
pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf but I can't make anything work.
Here is my pg_ident file
pg_map root postgres
Here is the line from pg_hba
local all all ident map=pg_map
What am I doing wrong here?