Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)endpoint(dot)com> writes:
> From the comment in hba.c, it appears that the desired behavior is to
> have the system ignore the failure,
I'm not sure how you could possibly read that comment that way.
It might be sane to distinguish initial load from reload, but I think
the behavior is correct as-is for initial load.
Also, if we are going to do something like this, we should make sure
it's consistent across all the config files.
regards, tom lane