With this pg_hba.conf (line numbers from vi, of course):
48 # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD 49 50 local all all
ident sameuser 51 host all 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
ident s ameuser 52
we naturally get a parse error because of the missing user column entry
in line 51. But in the log we see:
Dec 10 19:27:42 linda postgres[10944]: [8] LOG: parse_hba: invalid
syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 95, token "ident"
In a more complicated file, a bogus line number is going to make
debugging very tricky. I tried following this in gdb, but haven't
managed to track it through the fork of the new backend.
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