Tom Lane wrote:
> "Greg Kelley" <gkelley@britannicaviation.com> writes:
> > pgsql log shows:
>
> > FATAL: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for
> > details
> > "OG: parse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 31, token "
>
> > Even the log entry doesn't look right - double quotes - and the .conf file
> > certainly doesn't have 31 lines!
>
> Indeed. I think it's a Windows-newline issue: you probably edited the
> config file with something that put in \r\n instead of \n. The
> overstruck LOG is a dead giveaway...
>
> I thought we had fixed the various config file parsers to be reasonably
> impervious to stray \r's, but you may have found a corner case where
> it's not recognized as whitespace. Try getting rid of the \r's.
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