Re: BUG #5329: postmaster fails to start because of an erroneous pg_hba.conf, but doesn't output any error

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> We most certainly do print something --- in your example I get this:
>
> LOG:  invalid authentication method "127.0.0.1"
> CONTEXT:  line 81 of configuration file "/home/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf"
> FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
>
> I suspect you are using a configuration that redirects the postmaster's
> log to /dev/null, or some equally unhelpful place :-(.
>
> FWIW, this message comes out after the logging settings in
> postgresql.conf have been adopted, so you should look to those to see
> where the message actually went.  Errors in postgresql.conf itself
> typically get reported on postmaster's stderr.

You are right, I wasn't looking at the right place (I was a user of
Postgres a very long time ago).

Sorry for this unnecessary bug report, and thanks to you and to Euler
who answered as well.

Best regards,
Olivier Jeannet.