Re: PostgreSQL server won't start, corrupt?

I think that pg_hba.conf is a bit of a red herring, the first line of the
log file is probably more important (?):
PDT LOG: invalid connection type ""

(I changed the file to Unix format anyway, just to rule that out).

On 9 October 2014 13:56, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 10/9/2014 1:52 PM, Rob Flemming wrote:
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>> I have just installed Notepad++.
>> The file was UTF8, with no special characters...
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> ok, whats the first line ?
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> hmm. the file may also have to be in "unix" format, not "dos", as DOS
> format puts <CR> in front of each new-line. thats under Edit -> EOL
> Conversion in notepad++
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