Ah, OK.
So what you are saying is that I don’t need the 'ConfigDir/pg_hba.conf' in postgresql.conf . I guess that makes sense as well because you would only need that if it wasn’t located in the data directory.
Although having said that, I think I uncommented it because I was having trouble seeing the changes to the IP addresses in pgAdmin. But that was a couple of days ago now and a lot of water has passed under the bridge.
I’ll leave it hardcoded for now as it does seem to be picking up the setting in pgAdmin.
Thanks for the link to the manual.
Cheers,
Alan.
From: Scott Mead [mailto:scott.lists@enterprisedb.com]
Sent: 30 July 2009 01:14
To: alan@anitltd.co.uk
Cc: Chris; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] V8.3 fails to start after unremming hba_file = 'ConfigDir/pg_hba.conf'
Re-REM (called commenting for us non-windows geeks :-) the line
Look in your data directory, the file exists and is used automatically, you don't need to point the postgresql.conf file to it explicitly.
Look at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/client-authentication.html
For details on configuring the file.
Good Luck
--Scott