Bill Chandler <billybobc1210(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> LOG: invalid entry in pg_hba.conf file at line 60,
> token "255.255.255.255"
> I have found that if I change this value to anything
> other than "255.255.255.255" (e.g. "255.255.255.254")
> the message goes away.
Bizarre. AFAICS this must indicate that getaddrinfo() is rejecting the
value, which perhaps could happen if some bit of it were miscoded to
use "-1" as a failure code.
> Interestingly the same 7.4.1 binary running on a different machine did
> not exhibit the problem. Could it be a Solaris patch level thing?
Seems likely. Can you update and see if that fixes it?
regards, tom lane