Bingo! Dumb move. Dropped everything to password a few months back, never had
the occasion to restart after that. Will work on tweaking the pg_hba.conf
Thanks Matthew... if you are ever in Toronto, I owe you a beer.
Dave
>At a guess, you've set it up to not automatically trust local users, so
>the default options which 'wait' for the server to come up (and "waits"
>by having psql try connecting as the postgres user) waits for a long long
>time for somebody to give it the password it now requires.
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>I find that rather annoying, and miss it every time, until the rc script
>hangs. Check the options and figure out which one it is you have to take
>out, I can't recall offhand.
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