"Erik Luke" <eluke@cs.montana.edu> writes:
> Upon trying to connect to the postgres backend by psql (with password
> authentication enabled), postgres crashes saying "FATAL 1: Bad abstime
> external representation ' '". I have also gotten '@!' and '/g!' in addition
> to the ' '.
It would seem that there's bogus info in the "valid until" column of
your password file. What's in $PGDATA/pg_pwd?
regards, tom lane