Yes, this is a known bug in hba.c and was fixed here:
revision 1.98
date: 2003/04/13 04:07:17; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +11 -16
Second try at avoiding conflicts with system isblank().
The fix is in 7.3.3, just released. The easiest solution is to replace
\r\n with \n, as you suggest. I don't understand how you got \r\n in
that file on Linux, though.
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bijoy@openlx.com wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am working on postgres 7.3.2 and i get an error while creating a user.
> as,
> psql: FATAL: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for
> details
> i dunno what goes wrong...
> i searched the archives and found that that may be a problem with
> "\n" replaced with "\r\n".
> But i am working on a linux 9.0 system fresh installed,
> and didnt edit the conf file...
>
> any help is appreciated
> Thanks & regards,
> Bijoy
>
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