Andrew Edson <cheighlund@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Someone else added the IP address for the other system to the > pg_hba.conf file later, but since we had already started postgres by > then, it didn't take. You don't need to shut down the server to adjust pg_hba.conf ... just "pg_ctl reload". > And now, for some reason, postgres doesn't seem to want to let me shut > down. A standard shutdown doesn't finish until all existing sessions exit of their own accord. Perhaps you wanted "-m fast"? regards, tom lane
