On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, rob stone <floripa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > local all all postgres peer > > > > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 > > > > host all all ::1/128 md5 > > > > now gives error on restart and we cannot find the log file > > > > "local" is for socket connections, yet you have an address of > "postgres". How did this function in the past? > > Sorta, but correct enough. Local lines and host lines have differing numbers of columns. As written the auth-method is "Postgres" with auth-option of "md5" (i.e., there is no address column for local) which is simply wrong. Whether it's an email typo or the actual file... I suspect it's possible we used to ignore malformed lines whereas now we error... David J.
