On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> boatcoder(at)gmail(dot)com writes:
> > Edit your pg_hba.conf file, add a space (without a new line) at the end
> of
> > the file.
> > Attempt to start postgres. It will fail with messages like this.
>
> Hmph. I can reproduce this in 9.6 and earlier, but not in v10 or HEAD.
> Apparently somebody fixed it by accident. Looking ...
>
Probably as a side-effect of:
"Add view pg_hba_file_rules to display the contents of pg_hba.conf"
to v10 (you can probably find the commit hash faster than I).
David J.