Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> His original message (which I snipped) said he had:
> # IPv4-style local connections:
> host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
> host testing123 brakesh 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
> So it seems to me he did have it configured.
I've seen similar problems resolved by discovering that (1) the DBA
was editing the wrong copy of the pg_hba.conf file, or (2) there was
actually more than one postmaster running on the machine.
Check "ps" for multiple postmasters. Put a deliberate error in the
pg_hba.conf file and verify that the postmaster fails to restart.
regards, tom lane
