Doug Silver <dsilver(at)urchin(dot)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