You were right! (Of course, you knew that.)
I typed a new pg_hba.conf from scratch without all the comments, i.e. only the connection strings, it worked.
Thank you 'Community'!
(Doh! My kids think I'm so smart because I work on computers, some day they'll discover the truth. Now to spend the afternoon backing up that data...)
On 9 October 2014 14:25, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/09/2014 02:16 PM, Rob Flemming wrote:
I think that pg_hba.conf is a bit of a red herring, the first line of
the log file is probably more important (?):
PDT LOG: invalid connection type ""
No pg_hba.conf is where the issue is. From your original post:
2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT LOG: invalid connection type ""
2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT CONTEXT: line 1 of configuration file "C:/postgres/pg_hba.conf"
2014-10-09 12:59:40 PDT FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
Note the CONTEXT line that places the error in pg_hba.conf. Also the next line that shows that pg_hba.conf is not loaded. Somehow you have entered something on the first line that Postgres thinks is a connection specification.--
(I changed the file to Unix format anyway, just to rule that out).
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
