Re: Cannot *start* server because of a typo in pg_hba.conf

Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That information would certainly be logged somewhere.  Maybe you
>> looked in the wrong log file?  Or you're using one of those
>> configurations where early output to stderr goes to /dev/null? 

> None of them logged anything to anywhere. You can reproduce it on your
> machine, too.

No, I can't.  I get something like this on stderr:

LOG:  invalid connection type "zlocal"
CONTEXT:  line 82 of configuration file "/home/postgres/testversion/data/pg_hba.conf"
FATAL:  could not load pg_hba.conf
        regards, tom lane