"Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@counterpane.com> writes:
> This is the complete pg_hba contents
> local all all trust
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
> #host all all 172.31.0.84/24 trust
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host all all ::1/128 trust
That file certainly shouldn't let in any nonlocal connections, so
I'm of the opinion you're editing the wrong file :-(. You might
try strace'ing the postmaster to see what files it re-reads after
being sighup'd.
regards, tom lane