Re: Can't start postmaster on -HEAD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:19:28 Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> This is a fresh snapshot -- is also happened on Nov 28th snapshot, too:
>
> -bash-3.2$ pg_ctl start
> server starting
> -bash-3.2$ LOG:  authentication option not in name=value format: sameuser
>
> CONTEXT:  line 70 of configuration file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf"
> FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
>
> Line 70 is:
>
> local   all         all                               ident sameuser
>
> (Ran initdb via RPM init script btw).
>
> Am I missing something?

The hba file format has changed.  Your simplest fix would be to remove
the "sameuser".