On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Andrew Edson wrote: <snip> > 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. And now, for some reason, postgres doesn't seem > to want to let me shut down. Try telling Postgres about your new pg_hba.cfg file by using pg_ctl reload I'm not aware why you couldn't just stop it with pg_ctl stop even with the wrong pg_hba.conf file. HTH, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation 510-924-1363 or 202-747-1263 rtroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://ScienceTools.com/