Re: Can't get pg_hba.conf to work - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> writes:
> > And no matter what I put in the pg_hba.conf file, I get the following:
> > parse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 253, token
> > "localhost"
> > FATAL 1:  Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for
> > details
>
> In 7.2 you must SIGHUP the postmaster to get it to take notice of
> changes in its config files --- the thing is still complaining about
> an error in whatever the file contained when you started it.
>
> "pg_ctl reload" is a convenient script for sending SIGHUP to the
> postmaster.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Thanks Tom -- That was indeed the problem.

Didn't know about the SIGHUP aspect of postgres.  Hmmm, RTFM? ;-)

I've since added the reload to the contributed startup script so I
remember it the next time.  Nothing more than these four lines:

    reload)
    su -l $PGUSER -c "$DAEMON reload"
    echo 'Reloading (SIGHUP) Postgresql'
    ;;

Thanks.

-d

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Doug Silver
Network Manager
Urchin Software Corp.    http://www.urchin.com
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