Re: psql on Mac

Thank you, Tom!

I am attaching the output of "ps auxww". I am not able to make any sense of
it, sorry! Maybe you can?

Ozan

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 12:47, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Ozan Kahramanogullari <ozan(dot)kah(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Yes, sorry you are right. The file is indeed indicated to be where I
> > mentioned.
>
> Well, there's something really screwy going on here. A server using the
> pg_hba.conf file you showed us should never ask for a password at all.
> I'm reduced to theorizing that you have two Postgres servers running on
> that machine, or "localhost" isn't resolving the way you think and the
> "psql -h localhost" cases are connecting somewhere else.
>
> I'm not sure of the current state of affairs, but at least older versions
> of Apple Remote Desktop had a version of PG included ... so the idea that
> there's another server besides the one you know about isn't to be
> dismissed out-of-hand. Digging through "ps auxww" output might be
> informative.
>
> regards, tom lane
>