Thread: pg_hba.conf changes

Greetings,

  It appears that if you do the following:
  Start the server with pg_hba.conf saying to use 'ident'
  Change pg_hba.conf to use 'md5'
  Send HUP signal to server
  Log in to server (with password), create a database
  It seems to revert to using 'ident' again, at least for that database
  and possibly overall.  Havn't had a chance to play with it yet but it
  seems pretty straight-forward to repeat.

      Stephen

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>   It appears that if you do the following:
>   Start the server with pg_hba.conf saying to use 'ident'
>   Change pg_hba.conf to use 'md5'
>   Send HUP signal to server
>   Log in to server (with password), create a database
>   It seems to revert to using 'ident' again, at least for that database
>   and possibly overall.  Havn't had a chance to play with it yet but it
>   seems pretty straight-forward to repeat.

I don't think so.  Give us an *exact* sequence of steps to reproduce,
please.

            regards, tom lane