From: | Doug Silver <dsilver(at)urchin(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Can't get pg_hba.conf to work |
Date: | 2002-06-27 00:07:30 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0206261651110.23122-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net |
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks Tom -- That was indeed the problem.
Didn't know about the SIGHUP aspect of postgres. Hmmm, RTFM? ;-)
I've since added the reload to the contributed startup script so I
remember it the next time. Nothing more than these four lines:
reload)
su -l $PGUSER -c "$DAEMON reload"
echo 'Reloading (SIGHUP) Postgresql'
;;
Thanks.
-d
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Doug Silver
Network Manager
Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com
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