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DBD::Pg installation difficulty during make test

From
"Donald Tucker"
Date:
I am attempting to install DBD::Pg version 1.13, and I'm using postgresql
7.2.2, Perl 5.8.0, on a Mandrake 9.0 release.  The first two steps of the
installation went smoothly (i.e. perl Makefile.PL, and make), but when I
try to make test I get many failures of the DBI->connect(...) method,
specifically:

"DBI->connect(dbase=MYDBASE) failed: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed
 for user "MYUSER"."

I have the configuration file set up NOT to use IDENT authentication:

local all trust
host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

and I know that MYDBASE and MYUSER are valid because I can access the
database manually (i.e. psql MYDBASE MYUSER) without a problem (although,
if while within MYDBASE, I try to use the \connect command to access
another database as another user, this fails).  Looking in the logfile, I
just see the FATAL 1 error message, with little to no additional
information.  Could someone offer some suggestions to help me figure out
why DBI->connect(...) isn't working?  Oh, and I'm a super newbie, so please
talk down to me.  :-)

Don

Re: DBD::Pg installation difficulty during make test

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Donald Tucker" <dtucker@arlut.utexas.edu> writes:
> "DBI->connect(dbase=MYDBASE) failed: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed
>  for user "MYUSER"."

> I have the configuration file set up NOT to use IDENT authentication:

> local all trust
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

Sure looks like it thinks it should be using IDENT.  Perhaps you used to
have IDENT lines in pg_hba.conf?  If so, I'll bet you forgot to SIGHUP
the postmaster after changing the config file.  (See "pg_ctl reload" for
a convenient way to do this.)  The only other possibilities I can see
are that DBD is trying to talk to some other postmaster, or that you're
editing the wrong config file.

            regards, tom lane

Re: DBD::Pg installation difficulty during make test

From
"Donald Tucker"
Date:
You are 100% correct.  The line forcing IDENT authentication was
uncommented (and unseen) in the configuration file.  I commented it out and
everything worked well.  Thanks!

Don





                      Tom Lane

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                      03/21/2003 06:19 PM









"Donald Tucker" <dtucker@arlut.utexas.edu> writes:
> "DBI->connect(dbase=MYDBASE) failed: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed
>  for user "MYUSER"."

> I have the configuration file set up NOT to use IDENT authentication:

> local all trust
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

Sure looks like it thinks it should be using IDENT.  Perhaps you used to
have IDENT lines in pg_hba.conf?  If so, I'll bet you forgot to SIGHUP
the postmaster after changing the config file.  (See "pg_ctl reload" for
a convenient way to do this.)  The only other possibilities I can see
are that DBD is trying to talk to some other postmaster, or that you're
editing the wrong config file.

                                     regards, tom lane

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