I've done a lot of Google searching and PostgreSQL archive searching and
can't seem to figure out why I'm having problems.
This is a first time install of PostgreSQL version 11.3 on a CentOS server
running release 7.6.1810. I've just finished setting up the postgresql.conf
and pg_hba.conf files and am trying to start up PostgreSQL for the first time.
I'm getting errors no matter what I try. My first attempt resulted in errors
that look like the following:
syntax error in file "/var/lib/pgsql/11/data/pg_hba.conf" line 84, near
token "all"
I received this error for every configuration line that wasn't a comment. The
"all" is in the USER column. No matter what I put in the USER column, I get
the same error, but listing whatever string is in that column. I wandered if
this error was just a result of a different error someplace else, so I
commented out all lines in this file. That resulted in the following error:
FATAL: exceeded maxAllocatedDescs (16) while trying to open file
"/var/lib/pgsql/11/data/pg_hba.conf"
I'm at a loss and don't know where to look next. Any help or pointers
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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