On Jan 4, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Richard Doust wrote:
> Of course, the pg_hba.conf file is in the $PGDATA directory, and
> does specify the defaults, which should allow postgres to access
> the postgres database on localhost.
Are you sure you ran initdb as user postgres?
Maybe show us the exact pg_hba.conf entries and the exact psql
connect command/error.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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