The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 14859
Logged by: Mark Jones
Email address: boatcoder@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.5.9
Operating system: Ubuntu
Description:
Edit your pg_hba.conf file, add a space (without a new line) at the end of
the file.
Attempt to start postgres. It will fail with messages like this.
2017-10-17 13:20:22 UTC [2471-1] LOG: invalid connection type "ost"
2017-10-17 13:20:22 UTC [2471-2] CONTEXT: line 103 of configuration file
"/etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf"
2017-10-17 13:20:22 UTC [2471-3] FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
Look at config file file, scratch head because space is hard to
detect.....
Finally figure it out. Wonder how that space got in there....
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