Re: Authentication configuration for local connections on Windows

On 17/11/2011 23:41, deepak wrote:
> Hi !
>
> When attempting to start Postgres 9.1.1 with hba conf for "local"
> connections on Windows, I get an error.
>
> e.g. I tried adding the following line to pg_hba.conf
> local    all          user1                               trust
>
> and I get:
> pg_ctl -D pgsql\data -w start
> waiting for server to start....LOG:  local connections are not supported
> by this build
> CONTEXT:  line 92 of configuration file "C:/pg/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf"
> FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
> .... stopped waiting
> pg_ctl: could not start server
>
>
> Although, it is not clear what options I have to use while
> building/configuring?
> This same configuration used to work with Postgres 9.0.3, though.
>
> Any thoughts?

On Windows you need to use a "host" line, as Unix sockets aren't available.

Ray


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