Re: Crash: backup / restore

Le 25/10/2010 08:04, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
> 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.
>

OK, I have a patch that implements this. I'll commit it in a few days if
there is no objection.

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