"Sahagian, David" <david.sahagian@emc.com> writes:
> We get this FATAL pg_log entry, just after Postgres startup.
> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "rsaadmin", database "postgres", SSL off
> Postgres is run under the linux user account "rsaadmin", but we don't have a Postgres role by that name.
> Is there a way for me to specify a DIFFERENT USER, that pg_ctl will use to determine postgres has started ?
I think you could set PGUSER in pg_ctl's environment.
> If not, how do people work around getting this nasty FATAL log message ?
You could just ignore it ... it's harmless.
regards, tom lane