On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 28, 2024, KK CHN <kkchn(dot)in(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> and I have .pgpass in DB server as
>>
>
> You assumed this mattered but I see no mention that pgBackRest consults
> this file.
>
> It seems to require the local entry in pg_hba.conf to use peer
> authentication.
>
> David J.
>
>
Section 21.4 on this page (
https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#introduction ) does seem to mention
the use of .pgpass file. I have no idea about the actual problem though.
Amitabh