Re: Crash: backup / restore

Le 25/10/2010 00:43, Anssi Kääriäinen a écrit :
> On 10/22/2010 02:06 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>> The only reason I could guess is that localhost is resolved differently,
>> once in IPv4 and once in IPv6. And that either your pg_hba.conf accepts
>> IPv4 and IPv6 connections but with a different authentication methode,
>> or your .pgpass already has the password for IPv4, and not IPv6 (or
>> vice-versa). Not sure I explained myself clearly :)
>>
>> I think you should check your .pgpass file and your pg_hba.conf file.
>> And be careful about IPv4 and IPv6 resolution.
>>
> Yes, this is it:
> I had this leftover line in pg_hba.conf:
> host all all ::1/128 md5
>
> Removing the line gives me:
> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "::1", user "akaariai", ...
>
> And changing md5 to trust fixes the issue.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to supply -w to pg_dump to make pg_dump
> fail automatically instead of asking for password and thus hanging the
> whole pgadmin program. Unfortunately supported only from version 8.4...
>

This is actually a great idea. I'll try to add this for next release.
You're right that it's only supported from 8.4, but I still think this
is something we should do.

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