Folks,
Far and away the most common question we get in IRC includes phrases
like:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
This isn't exactly informative to newbies, so I'm proposing a patch
like that attached for such failures. Instead of seeing that
mysterious message, they'd get something like this:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "root"
HINT: Is pg_hba.conf set properly on the server?
Also good would be some way to make man pages and whatever Windows
uses both for pg_hba.conf and for postgresql.conf. Any hints as to
how to start this would be most welcome :)
Cheers,
David.
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