In response to Didier Gasser-Morlay :
> Where I am confused it that I created in pg_hba.conf an entry
> specifically for the user webstar
>
> local all webstar md5
>
> and placed it before
>
> local all all ident sameuser
>
> This works from the command line to use psql. so, to me it seems to
> say that this works.
>
> It is only when connecting from php (using pg_connect) that it fails badly.
PHP don't use the local-Method (socket), it connects via tcp/ip. So you
need a host-entry:
host all all x.y.z.y/mask md5
Replace the x.y.z.y/mask with your CIDR.
Andreas
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