On 6/19/19 2:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Brent Bates <BBates(at)langleyfcu(dot)org> writes:
>> I tried putting the pg_hba.conf back to stock defaults and that didn't help any. Here is a snippet of the current file:
>> # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
>> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>> local all all trust
That line has four values and the header has 5.
> Well, that's certainly a perfectly valid pg_hba.conf entry ... my file
> contains a line that looks exactly like that, and the parser is *not*
> particularly picky about what the whitespace is.
>
> I'm still suspicious that the server is reading pg_hba.conf but trying
> to interpret it as some other kind of config data, so I'd advise again
> to double-check what you've put in postgresql.conf.
>
> regards, tom lane
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