Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > postgres@salmo:~$ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/ & > [1] 17585 > postgres@salmo:~$ LOG: could not open secondary authentication file > "@authcomment@" as "/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/authcomment@": No such file or > directory > LOG: could not open secondary authentication file > "@remove-line-for-nolocal@" as > "/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/remove-line-for-nolocal@": No such file or > directory > LOG: could not open secondary authentication file > "@remove-line-for-nolocal@local" as > "/var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/remove-line-for-nolocal@local": No such file or > directory It looks like what you have in pg_hba.conf is a raw copy of pg_hba.conf.sample, without any of the editing that initdb normally applies to it (to say nothing of manual adjustments you might make later). It's hard to tell from the information given whether this is pilot error or something broken in SlackBuilds' upgrade script. In any case, you should be able to fix it by making a copy of your pre-upgrade pg_hba.conf and shoving that back into the data directory afterwards; there's no reason to change that during a minor-version upgrade. I'd check the other configuration files in $PGDATA too, just in case SlackBuilds is fat-fingering them as well. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general