Re: [EXT EMAIL] Re: First Time Starting Up PostgreSQL and HavingProblems - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 6/19/19 2:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Brent Bates <BBates@langleyfcu.org> writes:
>>       I tried putting the pg_hba.conf back to stock defaults and that didn't help any.  Here is a snippet of the
currentfile:
 
>>          # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
>>          # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>>          local   all             all                                     trust
That line has four values and the header has 5.
> Well, that's certainly a perfectly valid pg_hba.conf entry ... my file
> contains a line that looks exactly like that, and the parser is *not*
> particularly picky about what the whitespace is.
>
> I'm still suspicious that the server is reading pg_hba.conf but trying
> to interpret it as some other kind of config data, so I'd advise again
> to double-check what you've put in postgresql.conf.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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