I have run into a problem with the vanilla pg_hba.conf with 7.34. While most
normal local operations work as they ought, I found that when attempting use
postgresqs from GRASS that an error was returned due to a problem with the
pg_hba.conf file. The error message is:
LOG: parse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 45, token "TYPE"
FATAL: Missing or erroneous pg_hba.conf file, see postmaster log for details
The problem is that line 45 reads as follows:
# TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD
It seems to be a comment describing the datastructure that follows it. This
is the basic pg_hba.conf that is created when initdb is run and has not been
modified in any way.
I am running grass on the same system that I am running postgresql on and
there are no networking issues that I need to resolve, or at least I don't
think so.
John