> Thanks for the response.
>
> I had some trouble posting the question to the group - the list didn't think
> I was a member. In any case, I killed the process off without any adverse
> affects.
>
> I gathered from your response that the "pg_hba.conf" file isn't read at
> postmaster startup exclusively, but, rather, whenever authentication is
> required. I, obviously, wasn't aware of that - thanks for the education. :)
This will change in 7.2 and pg_hba.conf will be read only on start or
SIGHUP.
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