Re: problems with postgresql 10.1 hba_conf on fedora 27

On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, rob stone <floriparob(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> > local all all postgres peer
> >
> > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
> >
> > host all all ::1/128 md5
> >
> > now gives error on restart and we cannot find the log file
> >
>
> "local" is for socket connections, yet you have an address of
> "postgres". How did this function in the past?
>
>
Sorta, but correct enough. Local lines and host lines have differing
numbers of columns. As written the auth-method is "Postgres" with
auth-option of "md5" (i.e., there is no address column for local) which is
simply wrong. Whether it's an email typo or the actual file...

I suspect it's possible we used to ignore malformed lines whereas now we
error...

David J.