On Jan 4, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Richard Doust wrote:
Of course, the pg_hba.conf file is in the $PGDATA directory, and does specify the defaults, which should allow postgres to access the postgres database on localhost.
Are you sure you ran initdb as user postgres?Maybe show us the exact pg_hba.conf entries and the exact psql connect command/error.
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