Those big grown-up companies, they use Oracle, or SQL Server, or MySQL.
Given the number of person-hours expended every year for the past 13 years (and that's just the 8, 9 and 10 series releases) on improving PostgreSQL money is flowing in from somewhere.
I don't know the particulars of the people asking the questions so I take an approach that works for me - learning. I enjoying learning and in return when helping people I try to provide learning in addition to solutions. You got your solution and are welcome to forget that how the order of entries in pg_hba.conf influences its behavior - I won't be offended, and likely won't even know unless you ask a similar question again in the near future.
Oh, and I'm not sure it was intentional, but I enjoyed the irony of the wording and spelling that you choose to use when making your rant about grown-up companies.
