Re: Changing auth type in pg_hba.conf ineffective. Why?

IPv6?
Really?
That new fangled thing?
That's enabled on my machine by default?
Whadda know.
That's it.
Thanks.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1(at)obviously(dot)com> writes:
>
>> I've renamed pg_hba.conf temporarily, just to verify that postmaster
>> won't start without it. So I'm editing the right file, and restarting
>> postmaster correctly. Any clues why I'm still getting 'auth' method
>> authentication?
>>
>
> Well, have you checked that you're connecting to the same postmaster
> you're restarting?
>
> After that, I'd ask to see the whole pg_hba.conf and not just the part
> you think is relevant ;-)
>
> FWIW, the log message suggests that the connection is coming across
> IPv6, so you need to look at the IPv6 entries in pg_hba.conf.
>
> regards, tom lane
>