Andrew Brunette <brunette.andrew@gmail.com> writes:
> When I run this, I get the message, "FATAL: Ident authentication failed for
> user "abrunette"". Testing seems to indicate that this message could come
> from a variety of sources. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
The server's pg_hba.conf is set to demand ident authentication, not
password authentication, and your client code is not actually running
as user abrunette (or at least isn't connecting over a pathway that
would allow that to be determined reliably).
See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/client-authentication.html
for info about reconfiguring to use password authentication.
regards, tom lane
