On Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:41:22 pm deepak wrote:
> Hi !
>
> When attempting to start Postgres 9.1.1 with hba conf for "local"
> connections on Windows, I get an error.
>
> e.g. I tried adding the following line to pg_hba.conf
> local all user1 trust
>
> and I get:
> pg_ctl -D pgsql\data -w start
> waiting for server to start....LOG: local connections are not supported by
> this build
> CONTEXT: line 92 of configuration file "C:/pg/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf"
> FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
> .... stopped waiting
> pg_ctl: could not start server
>
>
> Although, it is not clear what options I have to use while
> building/configuring?
> This same configuration used to work with Postgres 9.0.3, though
>
> Any thoughts?
Local refers to Unix sockets. Windows does not have them so you will need to use
localhost.
For the reason why:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/release-9-1.html
Reject local lines in pg_hba.conf on platforms that don't support Unix-socket
connections (Magnus Hagander)
"Formerly, such lines were silently ignored, which could be surprising. This
makes the behavior more like other unsupported cases. "
>
>
> --
> Deepak
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Adrian Klaver
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