On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Uwe Bartels <uwe.bartels@gmail.com> wrote:
> when I used the postgres login 'replication' as the account for streaming
> replication I get the following error message:
> 2011-03-28 18:06:47 CEST FATAL: could not connect to the primary server:
> FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for replication connection from host
> "172.16.56.122", user "replication", SSL off
>
> The corresponding pg_hba.conf entry was correct and there was no other
> matching entry before that line.
> # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
> host replication replication 172.16.56.122/32 md5
>
> By changing the account name - everything worked as smoth as I am used to
> with postgres.
This is a constraint of streaming replication, and listed as a TODO item.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TODO#Configuration_files
Have pg_hba.conf consider "replication" special only in the database field
* http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-10/msg00632.php
Regards,
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