The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5329
Logged by: Olivier Jeannet
Email address: olivier.jeannet@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.2
Operating system: Fedora 12 on x86_64
Description: postmaster fails to start because of an erroneous
pg_hba.conf, but doesn't output any error
Details:
After having modified "pg_hba.conf" in bad way, with the following line (the
IP address is not used and not wanted) :
local all all 127.0.0.1 md5
postmaster was unable to start as usual.
I had a hard time finding the problem, as nothing is ouput on the command
line or in the logs.
I suggest to print something when halting on a configuration file parsing
problem.
Best regards,
Olivier Jeannet.