Brent Bates <BBates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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
