>pgsql-bugs is much more appropriate, especially for problem reports
>against a beta version.
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I will keep this in mind in the outside chance that I run into another
issue :)
>I tried to reproduce this without any success. Given the inconsistency
>of the behavior, I'm wondering about hardware flakiness on your machine.
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As I get some time I will try to create a scenario to reproduce the
problem. While thinking about the sequence of events that led to this
problem I realized that it will take some controlled testing to isolate
what went wrong. I may be that the alter column type command had nothing
to do with it.
>>the message "FATAL: missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file." This file
>>not only exists but has not be modified by me during this time frame.
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>So what's in the file now?
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# TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
local all all trust
# IPv4-style local connections:
# host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host all all 192.168.1.0/24 trust
# IPv6-style local connections:
# host all all ::1/128 trust
