Teju Jakkidi vlogs <teja.jakkidi05@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Our expectation is that - when logging as postgres user from local host, > it should not prompt for the password as we have local for postgres set to > trust and loopback is set to trust. > However, when running psql as postgres user from the local host, it is > still asking for the password. > Adding below lines in pg_hba.conf file is working as expected: > host all postgres Local IP/32 trust So psql is connecting to the "local IP", not to the loopback address. This is probably a matter of DNS configuration, but since you didn't show us the exact command, it's hard to say more than that. regards, tom lane