Hi, I found that localhost was set to .bash_profile and when I removed it and then re-attempted to connected the database using "psql postgres", I got this new error:
psql postgres -p 5432 psql: error: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? So DO I need to restart the postgres service or is there any other workaround? Regards. On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 1:08 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 2:18 PM Atul Kumar <akumar14...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have postgres 12 running in centos 7 on my two machines, recently I >> changed the authentication of entries of pg_hba.conf to scram-sha-256 for >> localhost. >> >> Since then in my one machine, I have started getting the below error when >> I use command "psql postgres" >> >> no pg_hba.conf entry for host "::1", user "postgres", database "postgres >> >> >> I found that localhost is resolve to IPV6 by using below command: >> >> getent hosts localhost >> >> ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 >> localhost6.localdomain6 >> >> >> Then I tested the same issue in my second machine >> >> getent hosts localhost >> >> ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 >> localhost6.localdomain6 >> >> >> but in my second machine I didn't face any such issue while using command >> "psql postgres", I was able to login into the database without such error. >> >> >> The pg_hba.conf on both machines are identical without having any IPV6 >> entry in it. >> >> >> The entry of pg_hba.conf is like below: >> >> # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD >> >> >> >> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only >> >> local all all >> scram-sha-256 >> >> # IPv4 local connections: >> >> host all postgres 127.0.0.1/32 >> scram-sha-256 >> >> >> I am not able to understand that my both machines are resolved to IPV6 >> then why is my first machine is throwing this error ? >> > > That *is *curious. > > Have you exported PGHOST on either server (in, for example, > .pgsql_profile, .bash_profile or .bashrc)? If it is set to localhost on > the primary server then psql will complain like you noticed. If it is > unset on the secondary server, then psql will use the domain socket and not > complain. > >