'no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "postgres", database "postgres"'...

[Kynn Jones <kynnjo@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I try to run

% psql

as the postgres user, I get the error

psql: FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "postgres", database "postgres", SSL off

I don't understand this error, since the pg_hba.conf file includes the line:

local all all ident sameuser

What could explain this behavior?

Incidentally, is there a general way to get positive confirmation that a particular pg_hba.conf has been re-read upon bouncing the server with

kill -HUP <PID>

?

TIA!

kynn