"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> writes:
> I wrote too soon. What I did was uncomment the ssl option. I
> neglected to change the setting from off to on.
> When I try to start the server with ssl=on it fails with this error:
> Auto configuration failed
> 29006:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable
> has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207
AFAIK there is no place in the standard Postgres sources that could emit
an error message even vaguely like that. I'm guessing that you are
using some add-on code that tries to parse postgresql.conf, but I don't
know what that would be. Whose init script are you using?
regards, tom lane