Marc.... > Yesterday a client application broke immediately after we issued a > pg_ctl reload command. The only change we had made was to pg_hba.conf > to enable trusted connections from localhost. Can you change pg_hba.conf back to what it had been prior and do a reload again and check if the clients start working? I've gotten confused and shot myself in the foot when setting pg_hba.conf a few times, myself. brew ========================================================================== Strange Brew (brew@xxxxxxxxxxx) Check out my Stock Option Covered Call website http://www.callpix.com and my Musician's Online Database Exchange http://www.TheMode.com ========================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly