On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
boatcoder@gmail.com writes: > Edit your pg_hba.conf file, add a space (without a new line) at the end of > the file. > Attempt to start postgres. It will fail with messages like this.
Hmph. I can reproduce this in 9.6 and earlier, but not in v10 or HEAD. Apparently somebody fixed it by accident. Looking ...
Probably as a side-effect of:
"Add view pg_hba_file_rules to display the contents of pg_hba.conf"
to v10 (you can probably find the commit hash faster than I).
